
Date of this Version
2-10-2015
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Keywords
Codices, Annotations, Commentaries, Translations, Manuscripts Hebrew--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance
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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


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).