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Record Id:
032-003367034
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Add MS 18831
Title:
Kavanot ha-filosofim by Ghazzālī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
101 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1479
End Date:
1479
Date Range:
1479
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
A. Löwy
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Shemu᾿el ben Matatya de-Mili Roso (?) Aviḥayal
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Add MS 18831

Kavanot ha-filosofim by Ghazzālī

Contents

Philosophical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-101v
Title: Kavanot ha-filosofim
Title: כונות הפילוסופים
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 אלע'זאלי, מחמד בן מחמד

In an anonymous Hebrew translation, with the commentary of Moses of Narbonne.

There are many notes in the margins, including variant readings from other recensions, and explanations of terms.

Three additional pieces are appended on folios 98v-101r, and one on the fron fly-leaf (folio 1).

Colophon: והיתה השלמתו פה העירה קוסינצאיום ב' כ"ג לאדר הראשון שנת "וזכור" לנו הברית והחסד על ידי (מיסיר) שמואל תלמיד הרופאים בכ"ר מתתיא דמילי רוסו אביחייליהי רצון מלפני אבינו שבשמים שיאיר עינינו ושכלנו לידע ולהודיע אמן אמן אמן אמתתו וגבורתו. f. 70v
Colophon: פה נשלם מה שכוננו להשלים מפירוש כונתו [...] [...] אמן. פה העירה קוסינצא ביום ו' כ"ו לאדר השני שנת "וזכור" לנו את הברית והחסד על ידי (מיסיר) שמואל תלמיד הרופאים בכ"ר מתתיא דמילי רוסו אביחיילוהשם ברחמיו ישכינני במשכן האור והאמת ויאיר עיני בהשגה ובהצלחה הנצחית לאור כאור פני מלך חיים אמן. f. 97v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 101 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 134 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Stains and tidemarks.

Leaves repaired and guarded before rebinding.

Signs of worming.

Paling ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Shemu᾿el ben Matatya de-Mili Roso (?) Aviḥayal: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folios 70v & 97v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Alchazali. Liber De Opinionibus Philosophorum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 18,831.'

History

Origin: 1479 Italy, S. (Cosenza)

Provenance and Acquisition

1852-06-10

A. Löwy: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 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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Surrogates

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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. 891.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL