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Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 220 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm

Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    The bottom of the first folios has been gravely damaged by water.
  • Hand Description:
    Two hands, maghribī script
    Text n°1: 19 to 31 lines to the page (increasing progressively); 13th century (not dated)
    Text n°2: 19 lines to the page; beautiful manuscript with vocalization; 14th century (not dated)
  • Binding Description:
    Two parts from originally different manuscripts were bound together at a later date.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th / 14th century
  • Origin Place: Western Islamic World
  • Hartwig Derenbourg & Henri-Paul-Joseph Renaud , Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escurial, vol. 2, 2 (1941) , pp. 17 f. [Link]
  • Maurice Bouyges , Notes sur les philosophes arabes connus des Latins au Moyen Age: V. Inventaire des textes arabes d'Averroès, Beirut (1922) , pp. 3 - 54, pp. 33 ff., p. 46
Content
Abū Jaʿfar b. Ḥasdāī / لابي جعفر بن حسداي Notes taken from ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān 's Commentary on Galen 's "Therapeutics to Glaucon " 1v - 69v
  • Incipit:
    Notes on the Therapeutics, book I: 5 maqālāt (f. 1v , f. 9r , f. 19v , f. 37v , f. 49r )
    Notes on the Therapeutics, book II: 2 maqālāt (f. 53v , f. 62v )
    F. 1v : زعم قوم ان غرض هذا الكتاب هو التاءتي لشفاء الحميات فقط الخ

Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 70r - 220v
  • Incipit:
    F. 70r : اما بعد حمد لله المنعم بحياة النفس وصحة الاجسام الخ
    F. 70r : الطب حفظ صحة الخ

  • Note:
    The introduction is lacking. Foliation is given according to Cruz Hernández who claims that Derenbourg - who gives f. 69v as the beginning of the text - is wrong. Furthermore, Cruz Hernández counts 220 folios while Derenbourg mentions only 218 .