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Title:
Collection of philosophical writings
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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72 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1775
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1775
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1775
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Bonafos, Menahem ben Abraham, 1350-1449
Bonafos, Menahem ben Abraham, 1350-1449
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Yeḥezkel ben Shemu᾿el Kohen
ibn Ruksh, Yehudah ben Binyamin, 0900-1399
ibn Ruksh, Yehudah ben Binyamin, 0900-1399
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Add MS 18971

Collection of philosophical writings

Contents

A collection of philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-41r
Title: Kavanot ha-filosofim
Title: כונות הפילוסופים
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 אלע'זאלי, מחמד בן מחמד

Part 1 and a portion of part 2 (beginning on folio 25r) of the anonymous Hebrew translation of Ghazzali's Kavanot ha-pilosofim, with Moses Narboni's commentary.

ff. 41r-55r
Title: Ha-gedarim
Title: הגדרים
Author: Bonafos, Menahem ben Abraham פרפיניאן, מנחם בן אברהם

The text was apparently copied from the printed edition of Salonica, 1567.

ff. 55r-72v
Title: Ha-she᾿elah ṿeha-teshuvah
Title: השאלה והתשובה
Author: Yehudah ben Binyamin ibn Ruksh רוקש, יהודה בן בנימין

A response of ibn Ruksh to an inquiry of his father Binyamin regarding the three angels who appeared to Abraham. The response consists of 42 chapters and takes a form of philosophical exposition of the relevant biblical passages.

From folio 63v onwards, the scribe copied parts of Ginze ha-melekh by Yitsḥaḳ ibn Latif, perhaps from the New York JTS MS 2383, folios 60r- 71v.

See further Kreisel, Kiryat sefer 62, pp. 439-447.

Colophon: נכתב על ידי יחזקאל בן כ"ה שמואל כהן מאמספרט וסיים באמסטרדם יום ב' ע'ר'ח' מרחשון "סמיכות" לפ"ק. f. 72v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 72 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

72 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of 12 leaves each.

Condition

Corroding ink.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 26 38

Written lines: 26 38

Uniform layout.

Visible pencil ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every page or under each column.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century. Yeḥezkel ben Shemu᾿el Kohen: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 72v, and given in acrostics, folio 1v, 40r.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled.

Spine: 'Al-Gazali. Tractatus De Logica. Hebraice. Mus Brit. Jure Emptionis. 18,971.'

History

Origin: 1775 The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 12 June 1852; 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.

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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. 892.

Funding of Cataloguing

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