United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 631

Averroe's Commentaries on Aristotle's Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 176 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    Slightly stained and affected by damp.
  • Layout:
    Text was set one column.

    27 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Italian hand
  • Binding Description:
    Old vellum binding, rebacked and with corners repaired in natural goat, by Wigmore.
  • Acquisition:
    Bought in 1870 from S. Schoenblum.
  • Provenance:
    Owner's name on f. 175v : Immanuel .
History
  • Origin Date: 16th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 378
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 13r - 176v
  • Note:
    Althogh the outside cover carries the title שמע הטבעי הארוך, complitation caonsists, in fact, of material from Averroes' longer and middle commentaries as well as from the Latin version (הנסחא הנצרית).
    The names of the Christian authorities are cited in Italian form, e.g אידיאו = Aegidus ; אלבירטו = ; בורלייו = ; אוקם = Occam ; and = טומשו דאקוינו = Thomas Aquinas .
    Notes on the identification of the volume have been bound into it between ff. 147 and 148