Germany, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Or.Fol. 1057

Germany, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Or.Fol. 1057

Collection of philosophical excerpts
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 29 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Item 15: Mathematical figures.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Two hands.
    Item 15: Second hand.
    Spanish square scripts.
  • Provenance:
    This manuscript belonged to Jakob Levi, before it was owned by Adolf Jellinek who sold it to Moritz Steinschneider in 1857.
History
  • Origin Date: 15th cent.
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Al-Farabi The Quality of the Soul 1v - 2v
  • Note:
Hunayn ibn Ishaq Wisdoms of the Philosophers 2v - 3r
  • Note:
    Contains only two Aristotelian treatises (Letter to Alexander and On the right Thinking
Abū l-Qāsim Ibn Idrīs On the Forms 3r - 3r
  • Note:
Moses Remos Elegy 3r - 3v
  • Note:
    Contains only two Aristotelian treatises (Letter to Alexander and On the right Thinking
Hunayn ibn Ishaq On the First Essence 3v - 3v
  • Note:
    With a commentary by Moses Narboni
Abū l-Qāsim Ibn Idrīs On the First Essence 4r - 4r
  • Note:
Averroes Treatise on Eternal and Temporal Being 4r - 5r
  • Note:
    With a commentary by Moses Narboni
Galen On the Prohibition of Burial 5r - 5v
  • Note:
Averroes Treatise on Seeds and Sperm 5v - 7v
  • Incipit:
    אמר בן רשד כונת המאמר הוא שנחקור מהכחות הנמצאים בזרעים
  • Note:
    With a commentary by Moses Narboni
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 7v - 7v
  • Note:
    With a commentary by Moses Narboni
Avicenna On Heaven and World 7v - 12r
  • Note:
Averroes The Incoherence of the Incoherence 12r - 13r
  • Note:
    Excerpt from the third tratise.
Judah ben Solomon Harizi Index to the Moreh Nevukhim 13v - 17r
  • Note:
Moses b. Judah Index to the Moreh Nevukhim 17r - 18r
  • Note:
Meir Spira (?) Compendium on astronomy 19r - 29r
  • Incipit:
    מפני אורך הגלות ורוב הלחץ נאבדה חכמת חכמינו
  • Note:

  • Colophon:
    נשלם ת"ל על ידי אני שלמה בכ"ר יהודה גרני יזיי"א