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Add MS 17051
Title:
Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
178 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1466
End Date:
1466
Date Range:
1466
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Era:
CE
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Names:
Averroës, 1126-1198
Averroës, 1126-1198
Thomas Rodd the younger
Yeshu῾ah ben David ha-Kohen
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Add MS 17051

Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle

Contents

Averroës' Middle Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-178v
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.

There is a number of marginal notes and explanations, including the Commentary of Levi ben Gershom (folio 76r).

Folio 1r contains two geometrical demonstrations.

The translator's colophon is given on folio 178r, immediately followed by the scribe's colophon.

Author: Averroës, 1126-1198 אבן רשד, מחמד
Colophon: ונשלמה כתיבת זה הספר יום א' י"ט לחדש אלול שנת "זכור" אני הוא הסופר ישועה כהן בר דוד כהןנ"ע. f. 178r

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment
Extent: 178 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 134 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

178 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end).

Collation

12 quires of mostly 16 leaves each. Of the last quire only three leaves have been used. Small vertical catchwords at the end of quires.

Condition

Corrosive ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Visible leaf by leaf hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of parchment folios distinguishable.

The two outer leaves and mostly also the two inner leaves of each quire are parchment.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

Horizontal leaf catchwords.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Yeshu῾ah ben David ha-Kohen: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 178r.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, brown tooled.

Spine: 'Ibn Rashid. Comment. In Aristoteles Libros De Auditu. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 17,051 Plut.'

History

Origin: 1466 Alternative date: 5223 (1473). Italy, S.

Provenance and Acquisition

1847-10-23

Purchased by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, at Macdonald's sale, lot 158, 23 October 1847: inscribed, back flyleaf (iv)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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17051 (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. 885.

Funding of Cataloguing

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