Obj. ID: 21343
  Illuminated Manuscripts Fugger's Sixth Miscellany on Philosophy, Venice, 1552
Yaakov ben Hayyim appears in BSB Cod.hebr. 33, 59; Yishai ben Yehiel appears in BSB Cod.hebr. 7, 10, 19, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 56, 58, 62, 68; Scribe19 inBSB Cod.hebr. 19, 28, 44, 66; and Eliezer in BSB Cod.hebr. 39, 45, 47, 55, 59, 60, 65, 66.
sub-set tree: 
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Yishai ben Yehiel (scribe)
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Scribe 19
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Eliezer ben Yoel (scribe)
Text space: Yishai ben Yehiel: (237-239) x (139-142) mm.
Scribe 19: (240-241) x 139 mm.
Eliezer: (234-237) x (152-155) mm.
1. Intentions of the Philosophers (כוונת הפילוסופים) by Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali (fols. 1-95) in an anonymous translation: begins אמר אבוחמד השבח לאל אשר שמריו השעות והודיענו (Steinschneider 1895:309). It ends with a colophon copied from the text of our exemplar: נשלמו אלה הכונות על ידי הצעיר אליהו אמרילייו בכ"ג יום לחדש טבת שנת חמשת אלפי' ומאתי’ ושלשי’ ותשעה ליצירה ... בשקביא ואני הצעיר העתקתי אלה הכונות מספר הנ"ל. The original copy of Amarillio's Intentions of the Philosophers is found in Oxford, Bodl. lib. Opp. 587 (colophon on fol. 76v), which is apparently the text exemplar of BSB Cod.hebr. 64.
2. Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Organon I-III (באור אמצעי על ספר ההגיון) by Averroes (fols. 95-153v), translated by Jacob Anatoli: begins קול חופשי בינה בכסף (Steinschneider 1893:58-62).
3. Mikhlol Yoffi (מכלל יופי; The Compound of Beauty), parts 1-5 (chapter 10) by Samuel Zarza (fols. 155-491v): begins ספר מכלל יופי שחבר החכם הפילוסוף ר' שמואל המכונה בן סינא שור מציון מכלול יופי מהרריך (Schwartz 1989:25).
Green leather, turned brown, on wooden boards (335 x221 mm); gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front cover enclosing an inscription: פירושים. Below are the letters: FFFFF. On the back cover the roundel encloses a shield. Both roundels are each within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. At the bottom of the back lozenge are the letters IIIII. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has three hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the back cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two groups on the side edge and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the front cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring intended to hook over the nails of the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.
This binding was made for Fugger by Anton Ludwig inVenice(Hobson 1999: 129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 20, 28, 43, 46, 49, 68, 73, Cod.gr. 78.
Decorative title page, inscribed in the first display letter (fol. 1'): I, Yaakov ben Hayyim,
אני יעקב ברבי חיים