France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, héb. 918

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, héb. 918

Collection of philosophical commentaries and treatises by Averroes
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 179 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 236 x 164 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    18 quires of 5 bifolios and 1 bifolio at the end of the manuscript bearing the traces of the non-foliated ruling. The back guard is part of the first notebook, it has traces of ruling. The manuscript ends with a bifolium which is not numbered.
  • Condition Description:
    Some holes in the parchment, but they do not affect the quality of reading.
  • Decoration:
    Beginning of paragraphs are written in taller square type letters.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns, 42 lines each.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand. Spanish, sephardic. Dark brown ink.
  • Binding Description:
    Full leather binding, blind stamped. With Decor. The back was redone. Nails and traces of straps.
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Hermann Zotenberg , Catalogues des manuscrits hébreux et samaritains de la Bibliothèque Impériale, Paris (1866) , pp. 158f. [ 918 ]
  • Salomon Munk , Manuscrits hébreux de l’Oratoire à la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Frankfurt (1911)
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [ Paris BN 918 ]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [ Paris BN 918/1 ]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [ Paris BN 918/2 ]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [ Paris BN 918/3 ]
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  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [ Paris BN 918/10 ]
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , p. 54
Content
Averroes Short Commentary on the Organon 1v - 32v
  • Note:
    At the end (fols. 32r - 32v) there are excerpts of the "Kitab al-shifa" by Avicenna
  • Colophon:
    והעתיק [=תרגם] אותו ... יעקב בכה"ה מכיר ביום החדש [!] מחדש כסליו שנת החמשים שנה לאלף הששי
Averroes Short Commentary on the Physics 33r - 54v
Averroes Short Commentary on De Caelo 54v - 68r
Averroes Short Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 68r - 73v
Averroes Short Commentary on the Meteorology 73v - 91r
  • Note:
    Fol. 91r: Excerpt on "אין כל מה שמניע מתנועע".
Averroes Short Commentary on De Anima 91v - 106v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia 106v - 118r
  • Note:
    Fol. 118r: Excerpt from the words of Avicenna and Averroes on existence and essence.
Averroes Short Commentary on the Metaphysics 118v - 147v
  • Note:
    At the end (fols. 147v - 149r) annotations by Aristoteles on this book and additions.
Averroes Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction 150r - 166v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 167r - 179v