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Add MS 18687
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- Add MS 18687
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- Levi ben Gershom's Supercommentary on Ibn Rushd's Intermediate Commentary on Porphyry's Introduction to the Organon of Aristotle
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- 191 folios
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- Start Date:
- 1459
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Add MS 18687
Levi ben Gershom's Supercommentary on Ibn Rushd's Intermediate Commentary on Porphyry's Introduction to the Organon of Aristotle
Contents
Summary of Contents: Levi ben Gershom's Supercommentary on Ibn Rushd's Intermediate Commentary on Porphyry's Introduction to the Organon of Aristotle.Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-191vTitle: Perush ῾al Be᾿ur ha-emtsa῾i shel Ibn Rushd ῾al Sifre ha-higayon shel AristoTitle: פרוש על הבאור האמצעי של אבן רשד על ספרי ההגיון של אריסטוContains also a commentary on books 1, 2 , 4 of the Organon itself.
Colophon: אני הצעיר חיים פורוינצאל כתבתי זה הספר להה"ר משה בר' יחיאל הרופא היושב בביניונטו והשלמתי אותו היום יום ראשון לשבוע ארבעה ועשרים לחדש כסלו שנת ט'ה'ר'ה' השם ברחמיו וברוב חסדיו יחיהו לו בניו וירום הודו והדרו ויאריכו לו שנותיו אמן ואמן סלה. f. 184vPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 191 foliosDimensions (leaf): 206 × 132 mm.Dimensions (written): 128 × 80 mm.Foliation:191 folios (+ 2 unfoliated parchment and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves, both at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
24 quires of 8 leaves each (last quire missing 1 leaf), marked with catchwords at the end, and also at the end of each of the first three leaves of ach quire.
Condition
Damp at head (in part).
Old losses infilled.
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 23
Written lines: 23
Uniform layout.
Titles and inital words in larger characters. First words and upward or downward strokes of letters on the first and last lines of pages respectively are sometimes ornamented, e.g., folio 81v, 82r, 136v, 137r.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Flesh side and hair side distinguishable.
A small circle drawn on the right-hand upper corner of the first leaf of a quire, e.g., folio 33r, 41r.
Marginal notes.
Maniculae, e.g., folio 74r, 75v, 77v, 97v, etc.
Folio 1 is a title page.
Hand(s)
Sefardi square and semi-curive script of the 15th century. Ḥayim Porovintsal (Provenzal): inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 184v.
Additions:Two additional fragmentary pieces appended: folios 185r-190v, Be᾿ur ha-melitsah, an exposition on the earlier portions of the second book of the Organon, and folios 190v-191v, Levi ben Gershom's notes 1-4 on the Intermediate Commentary of Averroes on Porphyry's Introduction to the Organon.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Levi ben Gershon. Supercommentary Upon Ibn Rushd. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,687.'
History
Origin: 1459 Italy, S. (Benevento)Provenance and Acquisition
Mosheh ben Yeḥiel ha-Rofe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 184v.
David ben Solomon Altaras (?): inscribed, folio 2r.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 April 1851: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18687 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 882.Funding of Cataloguing
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