Arabic MS 349 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
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Contents
Summary of Contents: Averroës' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora.Title: Kitāb al-TalkhīṣTitle: كتاب التلخيصTitle: Middle CommentaryThe commentator is not mentioned by name. Mingana (1934) presumed that he was Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Fārābī. This title is found at the end of both treatises in the present manuscript. Erwin I.J. Rosenthal (1937) identified the author as Averroës, see his article in the BJRL 21, no.2.
2a-36aTitle: Commentary on the Analytica PrioraLanguage(s): ArabicThe Analytica Priora of Aristotle in Arabic is entitled: Kitāb al-Qiyās (كتاب القياس); Book of Syllogism).
The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning. From the lack of the first page (or pages) there is nothing to supply a proper description of the manuscript and the text begins abruptly.
Quotations from Aristotle are introduced by قال, but there is no اقول preceding the commentary.
This book of al-Qiyās is referred to in the following treatise where we read on folio 48a: لانه ليس يلزم عن وجود التالي وجود المقدم على ما تبين في كتاب القياس.
Incipit: البيان بالدور كما قلنا فى الصنف الاول من الشكل الاول36a-95aTitle: Commentary on the Analytica PosterioraLanguage(s): ArabicAristotle's work is entitled in Arabic: Kitāb al-Burhān (كتاب البرهان); Book of Argumentation).
It is divided into two maqālahs, each preceded with a Basmallah.
36a-79aTitle: Maqālah 1Incipit: قال كل تعليم وكل تعلم فكرى فانما يكون بمعرفة متقذمة للمتعلم79a-95aTitle: Maqālah 2It is entitled: المقالة الثانية من تلخيص كتاب البرهان لاريطو.
Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: paperExtent: 99 folios (ii+95+ii).Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 123 mm.Foliation: Foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink. The third flyleaf is numbered as folio 1.Collation
Catchword on every verso.Condition
Worm damage, extensive water damage; historic repairs.Layout
143 × 70 mm.
Hand(s)
Indian Naskh script of around 1600.
Additions:Folio 1b: The text in Persian and then in Arabic seems to be of an alchemical character, as though the writer had confounded the present work with another which is of that kind.
Numerous marginal glosses throughout, and corrections in the text; some of which seem to be in the handwriting of the copyist..
Seal(s):Binding
Brown leather binding.
210 × 130 × 18 mm.
Three types of rectangular vermilion library seal impressions, intaglio-carved in nastaʿlīq script in two stacked lines, of the kings of Awadh (Oude) appear on folio 1a and 95b.Library seal of Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥaydar Shāh (b. 1803, r. 1827–1837) dated 1244 AH (1828–29 CE), inscribed with his title Sulaymān Jāh within two stacked, single-ruled cartouches:
خوش است مهر کتبخانه سلیمان جاه * بهر کتاب مزین چو نقش بسم الله، ١٢۴۴
Khvush ast muhur-i kitābkhānah-'i Sulaymān Jāh bahr-i kitāb; muzayyin chaw naqsh-i basmallah, 1244 (The seal of the library of Sulaymān Jāh is good; it embellishes the book like the design of a basmallah, 1244).
17 × 37 mm.
Library seal, surmounted by the royal emblem of Awadh, of Amjad ‘Alī Shāh (b. 1801, r. 1842–1847), dotted-ruled and dated 1260 AH (1844–45 CE):
ناسخ هر مهر شد چون شد مزین بر کتاب * خاتم امجد علی شاه زمان عالیجناب، ١٢٦٠
Nāsukh har muhur shud chun shud muzayyin bar kitāb; khātim-i Amjad ‘Alī Shāh zamān-i ‘Ālījanāb, 1260 (Every [prior] seal became cancelled since the book became embellished by the seal of Amjad ‘Alī Shāh in the era of his Sublime Majesty, 1260).
53 × 45 mm.
Library seal, surmounted by the royal emblem Awadh, of Wājid ‘Alī Shāh (b. 1822, r. 1847–1856), single-ruled and dated 1262 AH (1846–47 CE):
خاتم واجد علی سلطان عالم بر کتاب * ثابت و پر نور بادا تا فروغ آفتاب، ١٢۶۲
Khātim-i Wājid ‘Alī, Sulṭān-i ‘Ālam bar kitāb, s̄abit va pur nūr bādā tā farūgh-i āftāb, 1262 (The seal of Wājid ‘Alī, Sulṭān of the World, upon the book shall be permanent and as bright as sunlight, 1262 AH [1847 CE]).
41 × 26 mm.
History
Origin:Provenance and Acquisition
Previously in the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867, latterly as Commissioner of Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library; his bookplate on the back paste-down: "Hamilton MSS. No. 145". His assistant's note on the content of the manuscript on flyleaf iia.
Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812-1880), book collector and writer on art Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880
James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), astronomer and book collector Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
Formerly in the Crawford Library (Bibliotheca Lindesiana) at Haigh Hall, Lancashire, which was formed and developed by Alexander and James Ludovic Lindsay.
His bookplate on back paste-down: Bibliotheca Lindesiana 4/J.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913).
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843-1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843-1908 in 1908 to The John Rylands Library .
Record Sources
Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934. Revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.Availability
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