United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1197

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 50 + II leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Catchwords throughout the text.
  • Condition Description:
    Wormed and affected by damp.
  • Decoration:
    On f. 8r : there is a diagram. Beginnings of sections are written in larger script.
  • Layout:
    Text was set in one column.

    28 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Sefardi hand
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in old boards.
  • Acquisition:
    Bought in 1875 by M. Scharfmesser .
History
  • Origin Date: 1483
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 381-382
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Posterior Analytics 15v - 50r
  • Note:

    Concluding with an epigraph by the translator, desribing his methodology.
Avicenna Avicenna's Short Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo et Mundo 3r - 14v
  • Note:
    Divided into sixteen chapters.
  • Colophon:
    On f. 14v :copied by the left-handed scribe Elazar Parnas and completed on 13 Nisan 5243 = 21.03.1483