Netherlands, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 2073, fol. 1v, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-NL-LID-UB-Or.2073/page/8
Foliation:
There are two mistakes in the old foliation of the manuscript: number 20 and number 107 are wrongly given twice (see ff.
20r
/
21r
as well as ff.
108r
/
109r
). The DARE foliation represents the correct counting.
Collation:
The layer on ff.
160r-
169v
is wrongly bound; it belongs between f.
179v
and f.
180r
.
Layout:
Text is set in one column.
31
lines to the page.
Hand Description:
One hand, in beautiful maghribī style
Acquisition:
Manuscripts registered in
Leiden
in the period between
1871
and
1833
.
Provenance:
According to
Witkam
it is not known how the manuscript entered the
Royal Library
in
The Hague
, but it does originate from the Library of the Jesuit Collège Clermont (today
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
) in
Paris
, from where it was sold by order of
July 5, 1763
.
Bouyges
informs us that before the manuscript went to the Jesuits it belonged to
Guillaume Postel
who purchased it while his oriental travel tours.
History
Origin Date:not available
Origin Place: Western Islamic World
Jan Just Witkam ,
Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden Vol. Vol. III (Or. 2001 - Or. 3000), Leiden (2008)
[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
IFFF
