United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Marsh. 472

United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Marsh. 472

Averroes, Commentaries onAristoteles' Writings on Nature

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 284 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In quarto
  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Watermarks similar to Briquet no. 3547, dated 1467.
  • Layout:
    1 column


  • Hand Description:
    Three hands.
    Sephardic semi-cursive scripts.
    Items 1, 2 and 4 by the same hand on the same watermarked paper.
    Item 3 by a different hand on different paper.
    Item 5 by another hand, or perhaps two hands; the end (fol. 284v) was completed in a cursive script.
  • Provenance:
    Owner: Crescas ben Mosheh ha-Rofé.
History
  • Origin Date: Late 15th cent.
  • Origin Place: Spain
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 494
  • 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. 227
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , pp. 115,
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472/1]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472/2]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472/3]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472/4]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Marsh 472/5]
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Physics 1r - 94v
  • Note:
    Beg. with the end I.ii.1

Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 95r - 96v
  • Incipit:
    הפרק השני אמר וכבר ראוי שנתחיל בדרישה ...

  • Explicit:
    לא יפסיד הנעתו במה שעתיד, עד כאן נסחת גמירו בשני אלו הפרקים.

  • Note:
    Chapters VIII.ii.1, 2

Averroes Middle Commentary on De Caelo 97r - 175r
  • Note:
    Translation finished at Béziers 5019 = 1259.

Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 255r - 284v
  • Note:
    Translation finished the 9th of Marḥeshwan 5073 (so) = 1312, at the age of thirty years.

Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus 175v - 254v