United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mich. 355

Averroes' Compendium of the Organon

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 228 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In quarto
  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Fol. 94 is double.
  • Layout:
    1 column


  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    Sephardic semi-cursive script.
History
  • Origin Date: Late 15th cent.
  • Origin Place: Sepharad
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 486
  • Malachi Beit-Arié , Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Supplement of addenda and corrigenda to vol.1 (Neubauer's Catalogue), Oxford (1994) , col. 228
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , pp. 54,
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 355]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 355/1]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 355/2]
Content
Averroes Short Commentary on the Organon 1r - 95v
  • Note:
    The translation was finished the 5th of Kislew 5050 = 1289.

Moses Narboni Commentary on Averroes ' compendium of the Organon 96r - 228v
  • Incipit:
    אֹמֹנֹהֹ (= אמר משה נרבוני המבאר) ראיתי לבאר קצור ההגיון אזר לאבן רשד המכונה בספר ההכרחי

  • Explicit:
    ויחשבהו ב״ר נצוחיי גדול מדרגה מכל זולתו מההקשים הנצוחיים כי לא יכזב כלל והוא מין - ע״כ מצאתי כתוב

  • Note:
    Moshe Narboni had several translations and commentaries of the Organon at his disposal, but not that of Levi ben Gershom, of which he says ואולי לא ביארו. Narbonis's commentary is not based on Jacob ben Machir's traslation.