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Title

Facsimile of LJS 453, Commentaries on Aristotle

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

2-10-2015

Files

Comments

15th-century copies of 13th- and 14th-century Hebrew translations of 12th-century commentaries by Averroës on scientific works attributed to Aristotle (De caelo, De mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologica) and a Hebrew translation of Aristotle's Book 9 of Historia animalium, with frequent marginal notes, some of which show signs of trimming (f. 182r). The end of the volume, with a different scribe and different readers, may have been bound with the rest at some later date; it includes a Hebrew translation of Aristotle's De somno et vigilia, Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Song of Solomon, and a Hebrew translation of Maimonides' letter to the Jews of Yemen. The letter of Maimonides has marginal notes in Latin by a reader comparing a few leaves of the manuscript to a printed version of the text (f. 261r-263r) and a concluding note in a combination of Hebrew and Latin (f. 269v), by the same hand that converted dates in the main section of the manuscript to the Gregorian calendar (f. 84v, 162r, 250v).

Keywords

Codices, Annotations, Commentaries, Translations, Manuscripts Hebrew--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5950432

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs453.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 453, Commentaries on Aristotle" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 58.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/58