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Foliation:
F. 225v is blank.
Collation:
The last word of a quire is repeated as the first word of the next quire.
A number of times a catchword appears within the empty space of the last line of the quire.
The anticipated words having a sign, and often with broken letters.
Condition Description:
Last eight leaves dampstained and with defects, without loss of text.
Restorted to size.
The last but one leaf partly detached.
F. 14- 21 with stains, not affecting text.
Otherwise good condition.
Decoration:
With square headings. Dark brown ink.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns.

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Hand Description:
Provencal
Binding Description:
Nineteen-century half Morocco (scuffed).
Acquisition:
On f. 1r : Ms. was bought in Florence in 1609 by Pausanus Plantavitius = Jean de la Pause, Bishop of Lodere.
Sold: Christie's, New York, Wendesday 23.06.1999 .
Provenance:
On f. 148r : Suesskind ben Abraham Loeb Levi

Christie, Manson and Woods International Inc.: Important Hebrew manuscripts and printed books from the library of the London Beth Din: sold by order of the Trustees of the United Synagogue (1999) , 36-37.

Al-Farabi	Treatise on the Soul	135r - 137v
Aristotle	On the Soul	120v - 135r
Aristotle	De causis	220v - 225r
Note: This is a Pseudo- Aristotle work, also known as הביאור בטוב הגמור [Book of the Pure Good] . Colophon: On f. 225v : "הועתק על ידי יעקב בן משה מפרובנס", Copied by Jacob ben Moses of Provence , in San Severino on the river Potenza in Itanly, finished on 1 Sivan 5184 = 1424
Averroes	Middle Commentary on the Physics	1v - 52r
Averroes	Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione	108v - 120r
Averroes	Commentary on the Parva Naturalia	138r - 147v
Averroes	Middle Commentary on the Metaphysics	148r - 220r
Themistius	Paraphrase of Aristotle's De Caelo	52v - 108r