University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 111

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12660

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 111

Title:

Commentaries on the Middle commentary of Averroës on Aristotle

Place:

France or Spain

France TGN

Date:

13-- or 14--

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 784:10) & positive (BANC MS UCB 111 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 112 leaves : paper and parchment ; 213 x 138-145 (145 x 85-87) mm. bound to 224 x 147 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 784:10) & positive (BANC MS UCB 111 FILM)

Note:

Manuscript may have been owned by a member of philosophical circle of Mordecai Comtino, Elijah Bashyazi and Caleb Afendopolo in late 15th cent. Constantinople. Later owned by a Karaite in the area of the Crimea (cf. book lists on fol. 17v and 39v). Discovered by Ephraim Deinard at Theodosia in the Crimea ca. 1876; sold by him to the Ladies Auxiliary of Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, who...
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper and parchment, fol. i + 112 + i; [collation is approximate; the manuscript has been damaged by sea water, and many folia and bifolia have been pasted in] 116 (+1?) 212 310 410 (+3 pasted in) 54 (+1) 6-712 812 (+3 pasted in) 96 108 (+2 pasted in).
Layout: 26 lines per page. No visible ruling. Catchwords at lower left bottom of every folium.
Script: In one hand, with notes in two other hands (cf. fol. 17v, 39v, and 112v).
Binding: Modern binding over pasteboards; cloth on spine, which is deteriorating.
Accompanying material: Two separate pages, written by Ephraim Deinard, describing his discovery of the manuscript in a 10th cent. synagogue in the Crimea in 1876, and the water damage to the manuscript during a storm on the Sea of Azov in Oct, 1876.
Origin: Produced in southern France or Spain in the 14th or 15th cent.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 111.
Former shelfmark: MAR 1.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS B485.L3A7.
3. fol. 18r-39v: Supercommentary on Averroes' Middle commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica, beginning defective.
4. fol. 39v: Poem and list of books in the possession of the former 18th cent. owner (same hand as fol. 17v).
5. fol. 40r-41v: From Levi ben Gershom's supercommentary on Averroes' Middle commentary on Aristotle's De interpretatione.
6. fol. 42r-49v (lacuna between fol. 48v and 49r): Levi ben Gershom's Supercommentary on Averroes' Middle commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry, beginning defective.
7. fol. 50r-57v (lacuna between 55v and 56r): Supercommentary of Levi on De interpretatione.
8. fol. 58r-65v: Isagoge to the end.
9. fol. fol. 65v-97r: Levi ben Gershom, Supercommentary on Averroes' Middle commentary on Aristotle's Categoriae.
10. fol. 97r-112r. Levi ben Gershom, Supercommentary on Averroes' Middle commentary on Aristotle's De interpretatione.
11. fol. 112v: Notes.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Meteorologica (Aristotle)

De generatione et corruptione (Aristotle)

Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem (Averroës)

Categoriae (Aristotle)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Manuscripts, Medieval

De interpretatione (Aristotle)

Isagoge (Porphyry)

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035246119706532

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley