United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mich. 497

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 147 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In quarto
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Items 4 and 5: watermarks
  • Layout:
    1 column

  • Hand Description:
    Three hands.
    Items 1 and 2: Italian cursive script.
    Items 4 and 5: Sephardic-Provençal semi-cursive script.
History
  • Origin Date: Items 1 and 2: 18th cent.(?)
  • Origin Place: 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. 754
  • 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. 407
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 497]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 497/1]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 497/2]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 497/3]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Mich. 497/4]
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 33r - 82v
  • Note:
    The date is here 77 = 1317.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 83r - 147v
Leon of Modena Ari Nohem 1r - 25v
  • Note:
    The preface of the edition forms in the MS. the beg. of the first chapter. It is divided into three parts, of 10, 13 and 8 chapters. No date at end.
Leon of Modena Treatise against the belief in metempsychosis. 16r - 31v
  • Note:
    Addressed to Joseph חמיץ.
Wolf Heidenheim Letter to Schmidt 32r - 32v
  • Note:
    Heidenheim inquires if the ס׳ ההוייה וההפסד had been published in any other language except in Hebrew; Schmidt answered that it had been printed in Latin.