Sa’d ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna, Kitab Talkhis li’bab al-Mantiq wa Khulasa al-Hakima (summary on logic), in Arabic, manuscript on thick buff paper [Arabic Levant, dated 685 AH (1276-77 AD)]

Sad ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna, Kitab Talkhis libab al-Mantiq wa Khulasa al-Hakima (summary on logic), in Arabic, manuscript on thick buff paper [Arabic Levant, dated 685 AH (1276-77 AD)]

single volume, two extracts in one volume, 10 leaves, single column, 15 lines cursive and scrawling naskh, title to first leaf, colophon dating the manuscript at the end of first section, leaves trimmed along lower edge (with loss to text from final leaf), overall excellent condition, one modern endpaper inserted at each end, 173 by 135 mm.; nineteenth-century leather, covers stamped in blind with Mamluk-style central circular medallion, ruled in blind with additional gilt ruling to outer edges of covers, rebacked, covers a little rubbed

Ibn Kammuna (1215-1284) was a Jewish physician and philosopher, who was based in Baghdad. He is best known for his comparative treatise on the three Abrahamic religions, as well as his commentaries on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine and as-Suhrawardi's Talwihat on Ishraq philosophy.

The present volume discusses logic and philosophy and is therefore most probably a short extract from Ibn Kammuna's Talwihat commentary. This codex was copied within the author's lifetime and by an informal academic hand instead of that of a trained scribe, suggesting that may be either an authorial copy or one copied by one of his students from the original exemplar.

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