Obj. ID: 20945
Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts  Fugger's Commentaries, Venice, c.1552

Fugger's Venetian Commentaries | Unknown

*Manuscripts and Printed Books | Biblical commentaries

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c.1552

Meir (scribe)
Eliezer ben Yoel (scribe)
Scribe 17

Italy | Veneto | Venice
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Germany | Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
| Cod.hebr. 39 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 39)

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1. Super commentary on Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Organon (פרוש על הביאור האמצעי לספרי ההגיון) by Levi ben Gershom (fols. 1-79): beginsאמר לוי בן גרשום לאל ראית כזה לבאר קצורי בן רשד בספרי ההגיון. Includes Porphyry's Isagoge (ספר המבוא), Categories (מאמרות) and De Interpretatione (המליצות). On fol. 80r is an incorrect title: ספר המאמרות לאריסטו. 2. Anonymous Commentary on Avicenna's Canon, Book I (fols. 81-194v): beginsהפרק הראשון בכוחות המשיגים הכח הנפשי (Steinschneider 1893:690-691). 3. Aron ha-Edut (ארון העדות; Ark of Testimony) by Judah ben Joseph Alcorsono (fols. 195-378v): begins מאמר ארון העדות שחיבר הרב הפילוסוף ר' יהודא בר' יוסף בן אלכרסאני... אם תשאלה על מחזה סודות נבואה או חלום.

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Watermarks: 'A' with a curl on its right in the outer corner of the folio (22 mm; e.g. fols. 2, 20, 22): Harlfinger, Ancre 40 (1548); a trefoil flower between 'P' and '3' in the outer corner of the folio (32 mm; e.g. fols. 80, 83, 198): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Lettres 75 (Venice, 1548, 1550).

Dark green leather on wooden boards (339 x233 mm); gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front and a shield on the back cover within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. The front roundel is inscribed פירושים, and below are the letters MMMM. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has three hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the front cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two on the side and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the back cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring intended to hook over the nails in the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.

 

This binding was made for Fugger by the 'Fugger Binder' inVenice(Hobson 1999:119-129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 19, 27, 33, 42, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61, 65, 66.

 

Watermarks on flyleaves: None.

The decoration was executed by Meir:

1. Decorated title page (fol. 1).
2. Decorated captions and initial words (e.g. fols. 2, 19v, 48).

Owners' inscriptions: None. Inscriptions of librarians and researchers: Front flyleaf, verso: an inscription in brown ink by Librarian 1a: פירוש רבינו לוי בן גרשום לקצורי/ אבן רשד בספרי ההגיון לארסטוט/ ספר המאמרות לאריסטוטלוס/ מאמר ארון העדות שחבר הרב/ רבינו יוסף הכהן ז"ל. Below it, on the left by Librarian 3: Perusch rabenu Leui ben gerschom likzuri\ Aebaen reschad besiphre hahigaion Aristotlos.\ Sephaer hamaemaros le Aristotlos.\ Maemar aeron haedus schaehibar harau\ rabenu Ioseph hacohen sal.\ Id est\ Rabi Ioseph Sacerdotis. On the right: Rabi Leui filij Gerschom cometaria\ in Dialecticam Aristotelis.\ Liber in Medicina (Hamaemoros vocatus)\ Aristotels Sermonum in medic.\ Tractatus Aron Aedus arcae faederis seu\ testimonij. Front pastedown, on the exlibris in plummet: contents of the manuscript in German. Exlibris and stamps: Front pastedown: an exlibris of the Bavarian Court and State Library (227 x 155 mm) with the arms of Elector Maximilian I of 1638 (Dressler 1972:B3ab), stuck over the earlier exlibris (175 x 135 mm) of 1618, before he became Elector in 1623 (Dressler 1972:A3a-f). Old signatures: Back cover, upper part in black ink: St. 9 n0 8 (second signature of Fugger's library). Front pastedown, upper right corner: MS. Hebr. 34. Front flyleaf, recto, upper left corner in black ink: n0. 14. Spine, on sticker: 74; and on spine and back pastedown: Cod.hebr. 39 (current signature).