Jewish philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Judaism -- Works to 1900; Philosophy, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
The editio princeps of this version has no statement as to where and
when it was printed, and is without pagination. According to Fürst
(Bibliogr.) it is printed before 1480. The copy in the British Museum
has some MS. notes. Subsequent editions contain besides the Hebrew text
the Commentaries of Shem-ṭob and Efodi, and the index of contents by
Ḥarizi (Venice, 1551, fol.); also the Comm. of Crescas and Vocabulary
of Ibn Tibbon (Sabionetta, 1553, fol.; Jessnitz, 1742, fol. etc.); the
Commentaries of Narboni and S. Maimon (Berlin, 1791); the commentaries
of Efodi, Shem-ṭob, Crescas and Abarbanel (Warsaw, 1872, 4to); German
translation and Hebrew Commentary (Biur) Part I. (Krotoschin, 1839,
8vo); German translation and notes, Part II. (Wien, 1864), Part III.
(Frankfort-a.-M., 1838).
The Hebrew version of Ibn Tibbon (Part I. to ch. lxxii.) has been
translated into Mishnaic Hebrew by M. Levin (Zolkiew, 1829, 4to).
There is only one MS. known of Ḥarizi’s version, viz., No. 682 of the
Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. It has been edited by L. Schlosberg,
with notes. London, 1851 (Part I.), 1876 (II.), and 1879 (III.). The
notes on Part I. were supplied by S. Scheyer.
The first Latin translation of the Moreh has been discovered by Dr. J.
Perles among the Latin MSS. of the Munich Library, Catal. Cod.
latinorum bibl. regiae Monacensis, tom. I, pars iii. pag. 208 (Kaish.
36 b), 1700 (7936 b). This version is almost identical with that edited
by Augustinus Justinianus, Paris, 1520, and is based on Ḥarizi’s Hebrew
version of the Moreh. The name of the translator is not mentioned. In
the Commentary of Moses, son of Solomon, of Salerno, on the Moreh, a
Latin translation is quoted, and the quotations agree with this
version. It is called by this commentator ha ʻataḳat ha-noẓrit (“the
Christian translation”), and its author, ha-ma ʻatiḳ ha-noẓer (lit.
“the Christian translator”). Dr. Perles is, however, of opinion that
these terms do not necessarily imply that a Christian has made this
translation, as the word noẓer may have been used here for “Latin.” He
thinks that it is the result of the combined efforts of Jewish and
Christian scholars connected with the court of the German Emperor
Frederic II., especially as in the thirteenth century several Jewish
scholars distinguished themselves by translating Oriental works into
Latin. See Grätz Monatschrift, 1875, Jan.–June, “Die in einer Münchener
Handschrift aufgefundene erste lateinische Uebersetzung,” etc., von Dr.
J. Perles. The title has been variously rendered into Latin: Director
neutrorum, directorium dubitantium, director neutrorum, nutantium or
dubitantium; doctor perplexorum.
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