United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Add. 173

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 298 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 170 x 120 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    There is an early numeration of the folios.
  • Condition Description:
    Stained and margins cropped.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.

    28 lines.
  • Hand Description:
    Italian hand.
  • Binding Description:
    Red calf leather, with golden ornamentation and stamped by יצחק פראגי יצ'ו Isaac Pragi [=Faraji]
  • Acquisition:
    Owners: מהררי בקל (of De Caelo et Mundo) and David ברוויצעלי (of the Metaphysics) as noted on f. 1r .
    Originally part of the Pargi collection; purchased from Gerorge Thomason and presented in 1647 by the House of Commons.
History
  • Origin Date: 1289
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Stefan Clive Reif , Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (1997) , 373
Content
Aristotle De Caelo et Mundo 1v - 140r
  • Note:
    Divided into four sections

  • Colophon:
    on f. 140r :copied by Menachem Yeshalem ben Benjamin and completed on 2 Av 5049 = 21.07.1289

Averroes Middle Commentary on the Metaphysics 141r - 297