United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mich. Add. 2b

Averroes, De Substantia Orbis
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 18 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In folio
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    Stained throughout and much injured from fol. 13.
  • Decoration:
    Watermarks similar to Briquet no. 691, dated 1479-83.
  • Layout:
    1 column

  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    Sephardic-Italian semi-cursive script, copied by the same scribe as that of MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mich. Add 1b.
History
  • Origin Date: c. 1478
  • Origin Place: Cosenza (Italy)
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 492
  • 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. 230
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. Add. 2b]
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 1r - 18v
  • Note:
    Incomplete. The translator introduces passages of the comm. of Aegidius, Thomas Aquinas, Augustinus, and Albertus. At end (fol. 18r) a few lines of the Kabbalistical work שערי אורה, and (fol. 18v) a birthe of the year 5260 = 1500.