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Or 5430

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Or 5430
Title:
Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
163 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1476
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1476
Date Range:
1476
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CE
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Names:
Averroës, 1126-1198
Averroës, 1126-1198
S. Raffalovich
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Or 5430

Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle

Contents

Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-163v
Title: Be᾿ur emtsa῾i ῾al Sefer ha-shema῾ ha-tiv῾i shel Aristo
Title: באור אמצעי על ספר השמע הטבעי של אריסטו

In the Hebrew translation of Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, prepared in 1316. The date of composition in the subscription of Averroes is here Rajab, 595 (April, 1199).

Appended are two chapters of the same work in a different recension (VIII.2, chapter 1 and 2).

Author: Averroës, 1126-1198 אבן רשד, מחמד
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 17051 and [BL] Add MS 25879.
Colophon: והיתה השלמת כתיבתו על יד יוסף ן' נתן בן החכם השלם ר' שמואל ן' נתן ס"ט במתא ביהיג'א יום ראשון שבעה ימים לחדש אב שנת רל"ו השם למען חסדו הגדול יזכני לעשות ספרים לעצמי ולאחרים אמן סלה . בריך רחמנא דסייען מריש ועד כען. f. 163v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 163 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 151 mm.
Dimensions (written): 119 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

163 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Corrosive ink.

Tidemarks, stains and losses at edges due to damp (repaired).

Lacuna after folio 6.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

Horizontal catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Averroes. Commentary On Aristoteles Physica Auscultatio. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5430.'

History

Origin: 1476 Africa, N. (ביהיג'א)

Provenance and Acquisition

1898

Purchased by the British Museum from S. Raffalovich: 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5430 (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. 887.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL