United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 859

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 127 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Occasional catchwords throughout the text, some of them decorated.
  • Condition Description:
    Stained, wormed and affected by damp.
  • Decoration:
    With running heads. Beginnings of sections are indicated in larger script.
  • Layout:
    26 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Sefardi hands
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in half morocco.
  • Acquisition:
    Owners: Salomon , on f. 127v .
    Originally part of the Pargi collection; purchased from Gerorge Thomason and presented in 1647 by the House of Commons.
  • Provenance:
    Bought in 1871 from N. Coronel
History
  • Origin Date: 16th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 380
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Physics 2r - 127v
  • Note:
    The original inaccurate title ביאור בן רשד הארוך לספר השמע הטבעי, has been corrected in the margin on f. 2r by , who has also written at the foot of the folio 'interpres est Kalonymos'.
    Text includes a translation of Averroes' original colophon dating the completion of the work to 1170 .