United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. Or. 116

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 311 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In quarto
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Italian practice of quiring.
  • Layout:
    1 column

  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    Sephardic semi-cursive script.
  • Provenance:
    Owner: On the first page of MS. is an entry of sale in Spanish (Or. curs. char., difficult to read), where the names משה ן׳ באן בנשת and Mosheh קורדא (?) occur.
History
  • Origin Date: Early 15th cent.
  • Origin Place: Italy
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 691
  • 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.367
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , pp. 544.
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Opp. Add. fol. 17]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Opp. Add. fol. 17/1]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Bodl. Opp. Add. fol. 17/2]
Content
Al-Ghazali Criterion of Action 180r - 241v
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Anima 261v - 309r
  • Incipit:
    מפני שראינו כי הידיעה העיונית היא מן הדברים המועלים והנכבדים
  • Explicit:
    ואלם הלשון הנה בעבור כי לו עם התכלית הטעם תועלת המלות
  • Note:
    The translation was finished the 33rd עומר 5621 = 1241.
Averroes Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction 130r - 158v
  • Note:
    Has not the passage beg. ולולי.
Averroes Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction 242r - 261r
Ibn Tufail Ḥay Ibn Yaqḍan 1r - 129v
  • Incipit:
Jacob Ben Makhir Ibn Tibbon 159r - 179v
  • Note:
    In times Averroes and al-Ghazali were considered as authors.