Spain, Madrid, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1.888

Averroes' treatise "The Distinguished Jurist's Primer" (second part)
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 98 + II leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 265 x 200 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Layers numbered
    Beginning is lacking, manuscript incomplete, folios in disorder.
    The first folio sticks on another old sheet; this is the title page of the fifth book of Ibn Sīda 's Muḥkam (fī l-luga).
    At the end of the manuscript there are five single sheets which belong to the manuscript El Escorial, 1.940.
  • Condition Description:
    The manuscript is in good condition, slight water damage.
    Every folio is protected by a modern paper which is fixed in the seam.
  • Decoration:
    Brownish-black ink Headings in bigger letters
  • Layout:


    24 lines to the page
  • Hand Description:
    One hand, maghribī script
  • Binding Description:
    The binding was done in El Escorial by Rozanski . It is made of cardboard, covered with greenish-brown leather . Both book covers bear the emblem of El Escorial , book spine with gold tooling.
History
  • Origin Date: No date given
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Averroes The Distinguished Jurist's Primer x - x
  • Incipit:
    كتاب الحج والنظر فى هذا الكتاب فى ثلاثة أجناس
  • Explicit:
    حفظ الانساب . تم كتاب الاحداد وبتمامه كمل جميع السفر الثانى من بداية المجتهد وكفاية المقتصد فى مسائل الفقهيات وبيان أسباب الخلاف فيها بين ... الأئمة رضى الله عنهم أجمعين وصلى
  • Note:
    Only the second part of this treatise (nikāḥ, ṭahāra, ḥajj, īmān, nudhūr, aḥdād).