United Kingdom, Oxford, Merton College, Or. 1

United Kingdom, Oxford, Merton College, Or. 1

Averroes, Middle Commentary on the Organon
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 134 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In octavo
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Watermarks similar to Briquet no. 3528, dated 1429-58, and no. 40 or 42, dated 1451 and 1466. The watermarks in the copy of the second scribe are also found in that of the first scribe.
  • Layout:
    1 column

  • Hand Description:
    Two hands.
    Sephardic semi-cursive scripts.
    Fols. 2-28 are written on separate quires by a differnet hand. The rest (fols. 30r-132r) seems to have been copied by one scribe, despite the variations in the script.
  • Acquisition:
    From Robert Huntington's collection.
  • Provenance:
    Owners: Y'sh'ayah and Mikhael hak-Kohen (brothers; fol. 133).
History
  • Origin Date: Mid-15th cent.
  • Origin Place: Sepharad
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 867
  • 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.480
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , pp. 59. b-c.
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Oxford Merton Or. 1]
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Isagoge 2r - 11r
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Categories 11v - 28v
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Interpretatione 30r - 50v
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Prior Analytics 50v - 76v
  • Note:
    MS Contains only a third of the commentary.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Posterior Analytics 77r - 132r
  • Note:
    Ends with II of ס׳ המופת.