United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 496

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 156 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    The first folio is missing.
  • Collation:
    Catchwords throughout the text.
  • Condition Description:
    Stained, wormed and affected by damp. Margings cropped. Defective at beginning.
  • Layout:
    25 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Byzantine.
  • Binding Description:
    Bound (togethter with ) in quarter brown morocco, with vellum tips and cloth sides.
  • Acquisition:
    Bought in 1869 from Hirsch Lipschütz
  • Provenance:
    Owners: inside front cover f. 2 Samuel Shealtiel . On f. 26r Eleazar Nathan . On f. 116r Israel - איש ליברו איש די איל חכם ר' ישראל . On f. 156v Caleb ben Elijah Afendopolo .
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 383
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 2r - 156v
  • Note:
    The text ends with the Hebrew translation of Averroes' colophon.
    Bound together with .
    For a description of the contents of the fly-leaves see