Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Philosophical writings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18971
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18971
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

The NetherlandsAmsterdam

Summary

Philosophical writings.

Notes

• Corroding ink.
   

Extent

72 folios; 72 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled. Spine: 'Al-Gazali. Tractatus De Logica. Hebraice. Mus Brit. Jure Emptionis. 18,971.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 26 38; written lines: 26 38; Uniform layout. Visible pencil ruling. Titles and inital words in larger square characters. Catchwords on every page or under each column.

Script

Sefardi square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century. Yeḥezkel ben Shemu᾿el Kohen: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 72v, and given in acrostics, folio 1v, 40r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 12 June 1852; inscribed, folio [73v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — כונות הפילוסופים
• fol. 1r — Kavanot ha-filosofim
• fol. 41r — הגדרים
• fol. 41r — Ha-gedarim
• fol. 55r — השאלה והתשובה
• fol. 55r — Ha-she᾿elah ṿeha-teshuvah