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Title

Commentaries on Aristotle and Porphyry

Call number

LJS 229
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959415183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840430431
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5941518

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Provence or Spain

Summary

15th-century copy of anonymous commentaries in Hebrew on talkhīṣāt (middle commentaries) by Averroës on Aristotle and Porphyry, originally written in Arabic in the 12th century. The commentaries on Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione are titled Sefer ha-Maʼamarot and Sefer ha-Melitsah in the manuscript; the two commentaries of Averroës on these works are known as Talkhīṣ kitāb al-maqūlāt and Talkhīs kitāb al-ʻIbārah, respectively. The commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge is titled Sefer ha-Mavo in the manuscript; the commentary by Averroës on this work is known as Talkhīṣ madkhal Furfūriyūs. Occasional marginal notes. Lower half of one leaf following conclusion of text cut out (f. 114). Pen trials and notes in Hebrew, Latin, and French on the 3 detached leaves at the end of the manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14355 (various locations in Provence, 1446-1480).

Extent

119 leaves : 205 x 145 (144 x 95) mm. bound to 210 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, 119; 1¹⁸(-1) 2-7¹² 8⁸ 9¹² 10⁸(-1), 3 detached leaves; modern foliation in pencil, [1-118], upper left recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Remnants of contemporary or near-contemporary (late 15th or early 16th century) calf over pasteboards, blind-stamped; sewing guards of parchment fragments from leaves of a mid-13th-century glossed French manuscript; upper cover detached, spine lacking, fragile.

Layout

Written in 27-28 long lines.

Decoration

Small diagram in ink in lower margin (f. 75r).

Script

Written in Sephardic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Early Latin ownership inscription: Iste liber est meus mestre Benustruc[?] Avidor (f. 117v).
   
• Purchased in 1974 for the Comites Latentes collection, formed by Sion Segre Amar (ms. 129, label outside lower cover?); placed on deposit at the National Library, Jerusalem.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 88, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• Logic
• Spain
• Spanish
• Commentary
• Diagrams
• Science
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r