MS. Bodley Or. 42
Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental
Contents
Ḳaṿanot ha-Filozofim (Part 1) by Ghazzālī
ff. 1r-36r
, Ḳaṿanot ha-Filozofim (Intentions of the Philosophers) (part I) כונות הפילוסופים (חלק א) Hebrew translation of Maqâsid al-falâsifa
Beginning is incomplete.
With Moses of Narbonne's commentary.
Language(s): Hebrew
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper, watermark to identify, numerous blank flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, probably added at later at rebinding.
Extent: ff. 37
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
5 quires: i 8-1, ii-iv 8, v 6 in Latin and Arabic characters: m1, m2, m3, m4, m5 catchwords
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script
Decoration
Not decorated.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled.
History
Origin: [Italy]; [early 15th century]
Provenance and Acquisition
Seems to be the MS referred to as 'Mahomet de Rebus Naturalibus Heb.' in 1605, becoming 'Arabic' in 1620: if so, it probably came to the Library in 1603-1605 (see, S.C., vol. II, p. 740).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1348, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 1348, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
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Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1348.
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. 1348.