United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1194

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 154 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    F. 150 is wanting.
  • Collation:
    On f. 26v there is a decorate catchword.
    Consistent catchwords after f. 67v .
  • Condition Description:
    Stained and affected by damp. Defective at end.
  • Decoration:
    The letters מ ש ה are specially marked on f. 25v , and may indicate the name of the scribe. Headings are written in large squre script, with the use of blue, red and black ink to f. 51v .
  • Layout:
    text was set in one column

    24 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Byzantine hands
    There appears to be change of scribe after f. 68v .
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in brown leather by Wigmore
  • Acquisition:
    Bought in 1875 from M. Scharfesser .
  • Provenance:
    Owner (third and second front fly-leaves): Samuel Eliezer Hayyim Basani = Samuel Lazaro Vita .
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 381
Content
Additional philosophical material 151r - 154r
  • Note:
    Some of the additional philosophical material dealing with Averroes' Commantery on the Treatise on the Intellect by Alexandre of Aphrodisias .
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Physics 1r - 151r
  • Note:
    The translation is not wholly consistent with other versions of Qalonymos ben Qalonymos .
    The text breaks off a few lines before the end on f. 149v