Averroës, <em>Colliget</em>, and Avenzoar, <em>Taisir</em>, texts on medicine, late 13th century illuminated manuscript on vellum

This late 13th century illuminated and rubricated manuscript from Italy comprises translations of two rare and important medical texts originally written in Arabic in twelfth-century Spain

[Talkhīṣ kutub Arisṭāṭālīs fī al-ḥikmah al-ṭabīʻīyah ...etc., 1356, i.e. 1937].

Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works beginning with Ibn Rushd's (Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Ḥafīd, known in the West as Averroës) celebrated shorter commentaries on Aristotle's treatises on the natural sciences, as well as his Metaphysics and Rhetoric, followed by the commentary by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Qāshānī (d.1330) [also attributed to ʻIzz al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (d.1334 or 5), see GAL S I 464] on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's celebrated Ṣūfī poem in tāʼ, Naẓm al-sulūk or al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá. Contribution to the cataloguing from Tzvi Langermann.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 926Origin: As appears in colophon on p.422, transcription completed 19 Rabīʻ I 1356, corresponding to 29 May 1937 and 21 Bashans 1653. Likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 75Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "تلخيص | فلسفة ارسطو | الاندلسي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; compact hand, initially carefully executed in a bold line, later much quicker in a finer line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of inclination toward the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 22-26 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.14, 24, 42, 44, 67) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats pp.90-91).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وكان نسخ هذا الشرح في هذه النسخة واقعا في يوم السبت الموافق ١٩ من شهر ربيع الاول ١٣٥٦ والمطابق للتاسع والعشرين من شهر مايو ١٩٣٧ والمصادف للحادي والعشرين من شهر بشنس والحمد لله وحده اولا واخرا وبدأ واختتاما"Title from heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.6. p.175-p.422 : Kashf al-wujūh al-ghurr li-maʻānī Naẓm al-durr / ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī.5. p.175 : Min al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá / Ibn al-Fāriḍ.4. p.167-p.175 : Talkhīṣ Ibn Rushd li-Kitāb al-khiṭābah al-Arisṭī / Ibn Rushd.3. p.43-166 : Kitāb mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah wa-huwa al-qism al-rābiʻ min Talkhīṣ maqālāt Arīsṭū / Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Rushd al-Andulusī.2. p.42 : [blank].1. p.1-p.41 : Talkhīṣ kutub Arisṭāṭālīs fī al-ḥikmah al-ṭabīʻīyah / Ibn Rushd.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works beginning with Ibn Rushd's (Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Ḥafīd, known in the West as Averroës) celebrated shorter commentaries on Aristotle's treatises on the natural sciences, as well as his Metaphysics and Rhetoric, followed by the commentary by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Qāshānī (d.1330) [also attributed to ʻIzz al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (d.1334 or 5), see GAL S I 464] on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's celebrated Ṣūfī poem in tāʼ, Naẓm al-sulūk or al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá. Contribution to the cataloguing from Tzvi Langermann.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7967" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.422) "231 / 53" ; numerous marginal glosses in black ink