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Or 2856

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Or 2856
Title:
Judah ben Jehiel Messer Leon's Commentary on Book IV of the Organon by Aristotle
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
257 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2856 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
B. N. Rabinowitz
Judah ben Jehiel, fl 15th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89803764
Judah ben Jehiel, fl 15th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89803764
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2856

Judah ben Jehiel Messer Leon's Commentary on Book IV of the Organon by Aristotle

Contents

Judah ben Jehiel Messer Leon's Commentary on the fourth book of the Organon of Aristotle, in two parts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-257v
Title: Perush ῾al Sifre ha-higayon shel Aristo
Title: פרוש על ספרי ההגיון של אריסטו

The Hebrew text is in accordance with the Hebrew translation made by Jacob Anatolio of the paraphrase given in the Intermediate Commentary of Averroes.

Author: Judah ben Jehiel, active 15th century יהודה בן יחיאל, מסר לאון

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 257 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

257 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Folio 1 is partly folded.

Collation

17 quires of mostly 15 leaves each, marked with signatures in the right-hand upper corner of the first pages of quires.

Condition

Slight foxing of paper.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

The last word of a folio is usually repeated at the beginning of the next folio.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, with a title pasted on the front upper cover.

Spine: 'Comm. On Aristotle. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2856.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

1885-04-18

B. N. Rabinowitz: purchased from him by the British Museum on 18 April 1885: inscribed, folio [259v] (folio 002v).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2856 (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. 883.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL