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Or 10617

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032-003380343
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Or 10617
Title:
Collection of philosophical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
129 folios (i+129)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10617 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Gershon ben Solomon, fl 13th century
Gershon ben Solomon, fl 13th century
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Or 10617

Collection of philosophical works

Contents

A collection of three philosophical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-18r
Title: חבור בתורת ההגיון
Title:
Incipit: אמר אריסטוטליס בספר ההגיון כי ההגיון נותן דרך

A treatise on logic, apparently identical with Oxford, Bodleian MS. Michael 335, ff. 22-32. The beginning and the end correspond in the two copies. Accompanied with marginal annotations of the same kind as the Bodleian copy.

ff. 18r-19v
Title: חבור בפילוסופיה
Title:
Incipit: הטבע הוא התחלה ו..בה להת... ולשקוע הדבר שנטבע כן תחילה
ff. 21r-129v
Author: גרשון בן שלמה Gershon ben Solomon, of Arles, active 13th century
Title: שער השמים
Title: Shaʿar ha-shamayim
Incipit: נתתי את לבי לדרוש ולחקור בחכמה העליונה נשאה ורמה אמרתי אחכמה והוא רחוקה

A compendium of natural philosophy.

Cf. printed editions: Venice, 1547; Rödelsheim, 1801.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 129 folios (i+129)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 148 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150-160 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 20v, 74r are blank.

Collation

12 quires: i12, ii-iii8, iv18, v-vi12, vii4, viii16, ix14-1, x8, xi6, xii12.

The quires are reinforced with parchment guards in the middle.

Instead of catchword, the last word of the folio is repeated at the beginning of the following leaf. On ff. 28v and 90v there are catchphrases as well.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Front board is missing.

F. 17: outer margin has been trimmed.

After the last folio (f. 129), there is a small fragment of the following leaf.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of written lines per page varies.

Maniculae (e.g. ff. 21v, 90v).

Marginal notes.

Text tight to gutter, and thus restricted opening (in digital surrogate, some text is lost on curve of folio).

Hand(s)

(Italo-)Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Ff. 6v-8v: diagrams of the ten categories, or ten trees ( אילנות העשרה) symbolizing the logical structure of the world.

Additions:

Hardly legible Hebrew inscriptions on f. 20r.

Binding

Brown leather binding; missing front board is replaced with paper wrap-around. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 20r: הספר הזו שייך ל...

Latin note on f. 117v.

Ownership inscription on f. 79r: אברהם בר ישכר אפע...

Illegible ownership inscriptions on f. 129v.

Ownership inscriptions(?) on back pastedown: יצחק בר אפרים and ברוך בר איציק.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 127; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 September 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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