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MS. Laud Or. 98

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

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Collection of philosophical texts

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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111אלע’זאלי, מחמד בן מחמד, Kaṿanot ha-filosofim (Doctrines of the Philosophers, Maḳâṣid al-falâsifat), part I כונות הפילוספים (חלק א)
Language(s): Hebrew
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Alcalá, Pedro de (Petrus Hispanus), Compendium of a logical treatise קצור ההגיון של פטרוס היספנוס

According to Steinschneider's Prospectus begins as in Wolf iv, p. 826, ends .ועל זה הוקשו הכלב והזאב כמו שאמרנו

Other translations are entitled טרטאט or טרקטאץ; cf. M. Steinschneider, HÜ, 473.

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1341.
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. 1341.
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Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204משה בן מימון, Milot ha-Higayon (Treatise on Logical Terminology) מלות ההגיון

Mosheh Ibn Tibbon's translation, finished Kislev 5015=1254. Next comes an appendix headed: סבת הסתירה או ההפך הנמצא בספר מן הספרים

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Sefer ha-Higayon ספר ההגיון

Appendix to it at the end headed: חידושין לספר מאמרות מן קטאגוריאש

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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111אלע’זאלי, מחמד בן מחמד, Kaṿanot ha-filosofim (Doctrines of the Philosophers, Maḳâṣid al-falâsifat), parts II-III כונות הפילוספים (חלק ב-ג)

Translator of Part II (incomplete) is anonym, part III was translated by Yitshak Albalag.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 187
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 133 mm.
Dimensions (written):
Foliation: [A description of the numbering system(s) used to count the leaves or pages in a codex]

Collation

10 quires of 12, 14, 16 and 18 leaves, Latin characters catchwords in the lower margin of every verso, sometimes decorated

Condition

Fol. 74 is detached.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, repaired; gold-tooled coat of arms of Archbishop Laud in the middle.

History

Origin: [Spain]; [mid-late 14th century]

Provenance and Acquisition

Notes on fol. [ii]v: "Jacobi Armachani (?)"; "... Oppenh. 1173 (...586)" "Triplicam literaru[m] Alphabetam. videre licet paginis 73 et 177."; "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepiscopi Cantaur[iensis] et Cancellari Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1633"

Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1341., Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 1341. 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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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 22155

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1341.
    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. 1341.
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