Morocco, Rabat, The Ḥasaniyya Library (Bibliothèque Royale), 3825

Averroes' Commentary onAvicenna's Cantica
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 92 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 178 x 249 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    No foliation, with catchwords
  • Condition Description:
    Very good condition although slightly worm-damaged in the margins
  • Decoration:
    Cantica-verses: red ink, commentary: black ink Body of text framed by very fine lines:
    First two folios: gold (inner frame) and black (outer frame);
    other folios: frame in red lines
  • Layout:
    Text set in one column

    18 to 22 lines to the page; line spacing: 6 mm; line spacing for headings: 11 mm
  • Hand Description:
    Very fine Maghribi script
    Scribe: Al-Muʿati ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Lamfī
    Body of text: 119 x 182 mm
    The manuscript was written in the library of the son of Sultan Mulāy Ismāʿīl al-Ḥasānī al-Alawī .
  • Binding Description:
    New red leather cover with golden lines; spine: title and shelfmark in golden letters.
History
  • Origin Date: End of December 1655 (end of manuscript: the end of Ṣafar 1066 h.)
  • Origin Place: Morocco (Meknès?)
  • Leila Abu-Shams , "Descripción de cuatro manuscritos de la obra Šarḥ urǧūzat / Alfīyat Ibn Sīnā hallados en la Biblioteca Real de Rabat", in: Anaquel de Estudios Árabes 7 (1996) , pp. 9 - 14
  • Muḥammad A. Khaṭṭābī , Catalogues of al-Hassania Library Vol. Vol. 4, Rabat (1985)
  • Muḥammad A. Khaṭṭābī , Catalogues of the Royal Library. Section of the manuscripts of medicine, pharmacy and allied sciences Vol. Vol. 2, Rabat (1982)
Content
Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica x - x