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Date
1400-1499

Title
Ha-higayon by Petrus Hispanus.

Content
A Hebrew translation of Petrus Hispanus' Summule logicales..Author: Petrus Hispanus, -1277John XXI, Pope. (פטרוס היספנוס)Title: Ha-higayon.Title: ההגיון.Note: In the Hebrew translation of Avraham Avigdor ben Meshulam (translator).. No division into books or chapters.. A number of Latin and Hebrew explanations of terms, etc., and corrections by later hands.. Folios 9v, 21r: some tables completing the text, added by later hand..Colophon: חזק ונתחזק הסופר לא יזק עד שיעלה חמור בסולם אשר יעקב אבינו חלם יוסף פואה.. (Fol 37v)Filiation: The same scribe, Yosef Foah, wrote also MS New York JTS 2312, dated 236 (1476 CE)..
 
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Languages
Hebrew

Physical Description
  • Paper codex of the 15th century..
  • 37 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 195 x 140 mm. Dimensions (written): 150 x 90 mm.
  • Foliation: 37 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end)..
  • Collation: Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and signatures at the end (only partly preserved)..
  • Condition: Tidemark at head.. Usage stains..
  • Layout: Columns: 1. Ruled lines: 19. Written lines: 19. Uniform layout.. Titles and inital words in larger characters.. Diagrams (e.g., 5r).. Marginal notes in Hebrew and Latin characters..
  • Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.. Spine: 'Tractatus de Logica. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Jure Empt. 18,227.'.
  • Scripts: Hebrew.
  • Script (summary): Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Yosef Foah (scribe): inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 37r..

Ownership
Acquisition: Purchased through Adolphus Asher (bookseller), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1840-1853: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v. Place of origin: Germany?.Date of origin: 1400-1499 CE.

Bibliography

  • George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 917.
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