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Add MS 14763
Title:
Collection of philosophical writings
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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216 folios
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1273
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1273
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Names:
Absalom
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Dominico Irosolomitano
Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, philosopher, c 870-950
Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, philosopher, c 870-950
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, 1165-1225
Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, 1165-1225
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Mordekhai of Camerino
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Mosheh ben Yisrael Ya῾aḳov
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Shelomoh Yedidyah ben Mosheh of Rome
Shemuel ibn Tibbon
Yosef Rafael of Treviso
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 14763

Collection of philosophical writings

Contents

A collection of philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-117r
Title: More nevukhim
Title: מורה נבוכים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

In the Hebrew translation of Shemuel ibn Tibbon, preceded by the translator's introduction and the epistle of Maimonides to Yosef ibn Aknin. The work itself begins on folio 10r.

Folios 80v and 81r have been left blank, but there is no break in the text.

Colophon: נשלמה העתקת המורה מורה צדק על יד שלמה ידידיה יעשר ביר' משה יביב"ה לב"י מעיר רומי בביטרבו אשר בטוסקנא בששי בשמונה עשר לתשיעי שנת הל"ג ליצירה. אחלי מחוקק ליוצרו להשפיע עליו אורו ולהכניסו בחדרו ולהשביעו מזיוו והדרו אשר בו חשקו ותוחלתו וסברו ויפתח לו את אוצרו הטוב וישפות אליו שלומו כיריעות שלמה כרעות שלמה אמן תהילה לאל חיי. אמן. f. 117r

Numerous decorated panels in colours and gold.

ff. 117v-138r
Title: Perush Avot
Title: פרוש אבות
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

1 drawing in colours.

1 partial foliate border in colours and gold.

Numerous decorated initial words decorated in blue and red flourishing. f. 117v

ff. 139r-143v
Title: Perush ha-Mishnah (perek Ḥeleḳ)
Title: פרוש המשנה (פרק חלק)
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
ff. 143v-148r
Title: Igeret teḥiyat ha-metim
Title: אגרת תחית המתים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Colophon: והעתקתיו אני שלמה בשנת הל"ג ליצירה בשיני בשישי לעשירי תהילה ליוצרי מבטן לעבד לו. f. 148r
ff. 148v-160r
Title: Perush ha-milot ha-zarot shebe-Moreh nevukhim le-Ramba"m
Title: פרוש המלות הזרות שבמורה נבוכים לרמב"ם
Author: Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel, active 12th-13th century תבון, שמואל אבן
Colophon: נשלם פירוש המילות זרות לר' שמואל בן תבון בחמישי בששה עשר לעשירי שנת הל"ג ליצירה על ידי שלמה ידידיה ביר' משה יביב"ה. f. 160r
ff. 160v-162r
Title: Igeret le-ḥakhme Marsiliya
Title: אגרת אל חכמי מרסיליא
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

In Moritz Steinschneider’s view the letter was addressed to the learned of Lunel and Montpellier.

ff. 162r-162v
Title: Igeret ᾿el Yehonatan ha-Kohen mi-Lunel
Title: אגרת אל יהונתן הכהן מלוניל
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
ff. 163r-166r
Title: Keter malkhut
Title: כתר מלכות
Author: Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה אבן

1 partial foliate border in colours and gold. f. 163r

ff. 166v-174r
Title: Mesharet Mosheh
Title: משרת משה
Author: Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286- קלונימוס בן קלונימוס

7 partial foliate borders in colours and gold. f. 166v, 167r, 168r, 168v, 171v, 172v, 174r

ff. 174r-181r
Title: Ruaḥ ḥen
Title: רוח חן
ff. 182v-198r
Title: Otot ha-shamayim
Title: אותות השמים
Author: Aristotle אריסטו

Diagram of the four main winds illustrating Aristotle's Meterology. f. 190v

ff. 198v-211v
Title: Hatḥalat ha-nimtsa᾿ot
Title: התחלת הנמצאות
Author: Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Naṣr al- פראבי, מחמד בן מחמד

3 partial foliate borders in colours and gold. f. 198v, 201v, 202v

ff. 212r-214r
Title: Sefer ha-tapuaḥ
Title: ספר התפוח
Author: Aristotle אריסטו

1 partial foliate border in colours and gold. f. 212r

ff. 214r-214v
Title: Taḥkemoni
Title: תחכמוני
Author: Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th-13th century חריזי, יהודה בן שלמה

Parts of chapter forty-four only.

ff. 215r-216v
Title: Mishpaṭ shiv῾ah ha-aklimim
Title: משפט שבעה האקלימים

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 216 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

216 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves, 4 paper leaves with Italian text added, 1 modern paper flyleaf and 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); folios 1 and 217 are older paper flyleaves.

Collation

26 quires: i2 (folios 2-3), ii4 (folios 4-7), iii-v10 (folios 8-37), vi10-1 (folios 38-46), vii10-1 (folios 47-55), viii-xix10 (folios 56-175), xx4 (folios 176-179), xxi2 (folios 180-181), xxii-xxiv10 (folios 182-211), xxv2 (folios 212-213), xxvi2 (folios 214-215) + folio 216.

Catchwords at the end of the quires. Leaves on guards.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Gilt egdes.

Blank folios (folios 80v, 81r, 138v, 166r).

There is quire numbering in Roman numbers from quire iv.

Censors' erasures (e.g., on folios 141v, 142r).

Maniculae in numerous folios (e.g., folios 19r, 26r, 27r, 28r, 31v, 53r, 57r, 92r, 184v, 214r).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated; folios 3v-7v: Italian cursive script, unpunctuated. Shelomoh Yedidyah ben Mosheh of Rome: inscribed with his name in the colophons, Viterbo, 1272 (folios 117r, 148r, 160r).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Philosophical Miscellany. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 14,763.'

History

Origin: 1273 Italy, Central (Viterbo)

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 214v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1628 (folio 214v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Mordekhai of Camerino: sold to him in 1506 (folio 2r).

Mosheh ben Yisrael Ya῾aḳov: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 2r).

Yosef Rafael of Treviso: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 2r).

Absalom: his letter and notes in Italian on four Hebrew manuscripts including Add 14763 on four paper leaves prefixed to the beginning of the manuscript, addressed to Rev. Abate Antonio Marsand, Padua, 1827.

Payne & Foss: purchased by the British Museum from them in 1844: inscribed (folio [217v]).

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=Add_MS_14763 (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. 904.
    Mendel Metzger, 'Two Centuries (13th-14th) of Hebrew Manuscript Ilumination in Italy', in Die Juden in ihrer Mittelalterlichen Umwelt eds. by Alfred Ebenbauer and Klaus Zatloukal (Vienna: Böhnlau Verlag, 1991), pp. 131-50 (pp. 132 and 139).

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL