1. ff. 1r-39v
Versor, Johannes, -approximately 1485וירשוריווירשור Habillo, Eli ben Joseph Ḥabilyo, ʿEli ben Yosef חביליו, עלי בן יוסף (translator)Sefer ha-shamayim ṿeha-ʿolam la-ḥakham Ṿerśoryo mi-Pariś holekh ʿal derekh sheʾelotספר השמים והעולם לחכם וירשוריו מפאריש הולך על דרך השאלותJohannes Versor's quaestiones on Aristotle's De caelo et mundoThe text on f. 1v is continued on f. 3r.
F. 2 is a later addition, which contains part of a medical treatise.
On ff. 36v-37v there are indices of the questions on 'de generatione et corruptione' and 'de anima'; these are repeated (in a different hand) on ff. 38r-38v, followed by the questions on 'de sensu', 'de memoria', 'de somno', and on Thomas Aquinas's'de ente et essentia'.
Colophon: Translator's colophon on f. 36r: נשלם העתקת הספר הזה על ידי עלי בר' יוסף חביליו ז''ל ה''ה ביום חמישי בשנים עשר יום לחדש כסליו שנת ר'ל'ד' לפרט היצירה בכאן במונתשון [...] [i.e. 1473 ]
Language(s): Hebrew
Form: codex
Support: paper, watermarks similar to Briquet no. 11136, dated 1497
Extent: ff. 269 [foliated as 270]
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Modern pencil foliation. Fol. [176] misnumbered as 177, fol. [235] misnumbered as 236, foliation missing on the leaf after fol. 247.
Collation
Mostly quires of 6 bifolia.
1(13), 2-10(12), 11(14), 12(15), 13(11), 14-22(12)
On ff. 1-37, ff. 151-270 repeated words. On f. 2 and ff. 39-150 catchwords in the left lower margin of the versos. Condition
Binding partly detached.
Layout
ff. 1, 3-37, 151-270: 36 ruled lines. f. 2: 31 ruled lines. ff. 38-121: 38 ruled lines. ff. 122-150: 33 ruled lines.
Hand(s)
Fols. 2, 38-121, 122-150 are written by different hands.
Ff. 1, 3-37, 151-270: sephardic semi-cursive script, headings in square script. (Last word of verso repeated on the following recto.)
F. 2: sephardic semi-cursive script, headings in larger semi-cursive characters. (Catchword in the left lower margin of the verso.)
Ff. 38-121: sephardic semi-cursive script, headings in square script. (Catchwords in the left lower margin of the versos.)
Ff. 122-150: sephardic semi-cursive script, headings in square script. (Catchwords in the left lower margin of the versos.)
Decoration
Not decorated.
Additions: On ff. 151r, 156r, 193r and 200r Latin scribbling in the margin (upside down).
Binding
Parchment binding.
Origin: [Provence]; [c. 1500]
Provenance and Acquisition
Probably belongs to 13 Hebrew manuscripts that were donated to the library in 1683 by John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford. (See the Christ Church Library Donors Book, p. 194.)
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. i, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel, with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Microfilm
MSS R.R. Film No. F 15579
Bibliography
Kitchin, George William, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in bibliotheca Ædis Christi apud Oxonienses adservantur (Oxford, 1867), no. 187.
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2453.
Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 2453.
Steinschneider, Moritz, Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (Berlin, 1893), 483-8.
Zonta, Mauro, Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century (Dordrecht, 2006), 165-208.