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Condition Description:
Last folio ( 204r- 204v ): later replacement
Decoration:
Ibn Sīnā 's verses are written in bolder Maghribi script. The calligraphy and paper can be compared to that of "Hadith Bayad wa-Riyad", in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Vat. Ar. 368 (see the catalogue of Dodds , pp. 312-313). Brown ink;
Layout:
Text is set in one column

15 lines to the page
Hand Description:
Written in elegant Maghribi script
Catchwords were added at a later date
Binding Description:
Later brown morocco, covers with blind-stamped florets, rebacked, with flap.
Acquisition:
Estimation: 20,000 - 30,000 GBP; sold April 14th, 2010: 175,250 GBP (hammer price and buyer's commission)
Provenance:
Very few manuscripts have survived from the Almohad period ( 1130 - 1269 ), and this manuscript is considered one of the earliest copies of this work, probably produced during Ibn Rushd 's lifetime or shortly after his death.

Averroes

Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica

1r - 204v