Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
This 14th and 15th century Ashkenazi copy of the Sefer Moreh Nevukhim (Guide to the Perplexed) by Moses Maimonides is the Hebrew translation of the work made in 1204 by Samuel ben Judah Ibn Tibbon (1150-1230). This copy also includes a preface from the commentary to the Moreh Nevukhim by Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov, a 15th century Spanish rabbi and vigorous defender of Aristotelian and Maimonidean philosophy. In the 16th century, this manuscript was owned by Johann Buxtorf II, and used as the base for the latter's Latin edition of the Doctor Perplexorum (Basel, 1629).
Online Since: 03/19/2020
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- Buxtorf, Johann (Former possessor) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Author) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Annotator) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) Found in: Standard description
This paper manuscript which is dated thanks to its watermarks, is divided into two distinct textual units bound together. The first work is an Ashkenazi 14th century incomplete copy of the remarkable legal work Mishneh Torah by Maimonides (1135-1204), containing books 1, 2 and 5. The second text is an Italian 15th century anonymous lapidary entitled Inian ha-Avanim, followed by a text listing the carats of pearls and spinels, as well as the value of silver and gold in several cities and regions, including locations such as Paris, Venice, Genoa and Sicily. This miscellany entered the Bibliothèque de Genève at an unknown date between 1667 and the end of the 17th century.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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This manuscript was produced in a Parisian workshop around the end of the 13th century. It contains the Latin version of thirteen critiques written by, or generally thought to have been written by, Aristotle. The book ends with a fragment of De uno deo benedicto by Moses Maimonides. Forty decorated initials adorn the text, and a large drawing of Christ on the cross with Mary and John has been added on the last folio.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
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- Alfredus, Sereshalensis (Translator) | Aristoteles (Author) | Gerardus, Cremonensis (Translator) | Ḥunain, Ibn-Isḥāq (Translator) | Johannes, Hispalensis (Translator) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) | Nicolaus, Damascenus (Author) | Proclus, Diadochus (Author) | Qusta Ibn-Luqa (Author) Found in: Standard description
This elegant illuminated copy of the Sefer Moreh Nevukhim (Guide to the Perplexed) by Moses Maimonides was produced in Christian Spain in 1292. It is a copy of the Hebrew translation of the work made in 1204 by Samuel ben Judah Ibn Tibbon (1150-1230). The manuscript arrived in Italy either after the Jewish persecutions of 1391 or the ensuing expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula in 1492. It was in the possession of the renowned Bolognese Sforno family before reappearing in the early 17th century in the hands of the Italian Jewish apostate and inquisitor Renato da Modena. After more than a century, the manuscript reappeared in the possession of Johann Caspar Ulrich (1705-1768) a Protestant theologian, who donated it in 1762 to the Bibliotheca Ecclesia Carolina, the chapter library of the reformed Grossmünster church of Zurich. In 1835, when the chapter was dissolved, the books and manuscripts of the chapter library became part of the new Cantonal Library in Zurich. Finally in 1917, the holdings of this library, among others, formed the new Zentralbibliothek, where the manuscript still remains today.
Online Since: 03/19/2020
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- Alḥarizi, Yehudah ben Shelomoh (Translator) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) | Ulrich, Johann Caspar (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Illuminated biblical and ethical miscellany produced in Italy in 1322. This small format manuscript, with an exquisite 16th-century white leather binding blindstamped with the coat of arms of the city of Zurich, is divided into two groups of texts. The first section is made up of the biblical texts of the Five Megillot, accompanied by three commentaries on them, composed by the great medieval scholars, Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi), Avraham ibn Ezra and Joseph Qara. The second section is of ethical nature and consists in the Mishna tractate of the Pirqei Avot or Ethics of the Fathers and its commentaries. The first is an anonymous one ; the second is entitled Shemonah Peraqim by Maimonides, as translated by Samuel ibn Tibbon, and the third is a commentary by Rashi placed in the margins of the latter. In addition, this handbook is interspersed with aggadic, midrashic, mystical and philosophical material.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
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- Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Author) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Commentator) | Kara, Yosef (Author) | Kara, Yosef (Commentator) | Ḳimḥi, Daṿid (Author) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Commentator) Found in: Standard description