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ARISTOTLE. Sefer ha-Middot (Nichomachean Ethics, in the translation from the Latin by Meir Alguadez [c. 1400]). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER
Copied by Hirtz Leb Klessirt, [probably Eastern Europe], finished in Sivan 5538 (= 1778)
4o (232 x 185 mm). 72 leaves, with original Hebrew foliation in text ink. Brown ink. Neat Ashkenazic cursive script with square headings and running titles. (Severe dampstaining in the bottom half of all leaves, some text faded as a result, first and last two leaves damaged and restored with loss of text, the text generally well legible.) Modern blind and gold-tooled red morocco, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front.
CONTENTS:
Fols. 1r-72r: text; 72v: blank.
The text is subdivided into 10 sections. L. Berman published, from other manuscripts, the introduction and first chapter in Shlomo Pines Jubilee Volume 1 (Jerusalem 1989) p. 147-168. More than ten other manuscripts of this translation are known. See M. Steinschneider, Die hebrischen bersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (Berlin 1893) p. 209-212.
The same scribe copied New York, JTS MS 2983, an undated collection of grammatical and poetic texts.
REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 45, p. 19; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4711.
Copied by Hirtz Leb Klessirt, [probably Eastern Europe], finished in Sivan 5538 (= 1778)
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CONTENTS:
Fols. 1r-72r: text; 72v: blank.
The text is subdivided into 10 sections. L. Berman published, from other manuscripts, the introduction and first chapter in Shlomo Pines Jubilee Volume 1 (Jerusalem 1989) p. 147-168. More than ten other manuscripts of this translation are known. See M. Steinschneider, Die hebrischen bersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (Berlin 1893) p. 209-212.
The same scribe copied New York, JTS MS 2983, an undated collection of grammatical and poetic texts.
REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 45, p. 19; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4711.