Abbreviations and Signs The Hebrew Text of Sepher Nopheth Suphim Abbreviations :, Cod. Ambrosiana 91 (Milan), a manuscript of Sepher Nopheth Suphim com­ pleted by Menahem de' Rossi of Ferrara on October 12, 1474. Biblioteca Ambrosiana. , The editio princeps of Sepher Nopheth Suphim, printed by Abraham Conat at Mantua, 1475/76. R i William Roth's copy of the editio princeps, used in the preparation of the present edition. 0 Todros Todrosi's Hebrew translation of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric: Be'ur Ibn Rushd I e sepher Re(oriqe, r[i5.$"eh] l[emor ], sepher ha-halii,.$"ah le 'Aris(u. go J. Goldenthal, ed., Averrois Commentarius in Aristotelis de arte rhetorica Libras tres, hebraice versus a Todros Todrosi Arlatensi (Leipzig, 1842): a transcription of cod. Leipzig (heb.) XLI. C. a. PO Cod. Paris 933 (3): manuscript of Todros' Be'ur. Bibliotheque Nationale. TbO Cod. Paris93 2 (4): another manuscript of the Be'ur. Bibliotheque Nationale. K The original Arabic text of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric: Talkhi.$" Kitab al-Khi(aba li-'Ari.$"(ii (edited on the basis of cod. Leiden Or. 2073 and cod. Laurentiana CLXXX, 54 [Florence] by 'Abdur­ raQ.miin Badawr [Cairo, 1960]). n-1"Jn The textus receptus (Massoretic text) of the Hebrew Bible. J Adolf Jellinek's edition of Sepher Nopheth Suphim (Vienna, 1863). R. ad H. H. Caplan, ed. and trans., Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1954). Signs [ separates text reading from the ensuing variant reading. [ ] indicates an omission. < > indicates an addition. L7 indicates erasure, or cancellation, of words. L < > 7 indicates erasure, or cancellation, of an addition. A dot above a letter indicates a reading that is not certain. xi xii Abbreviations and Signs The Annotated English Translation Source abbreviations A Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric: the Arabic text, cited as paged in Badawi's edition. Boethius Boethius' De dijferentiis topicis (in J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina 64). De I. H. M. Hubbell, ed. and trans., Cicero, De inventione (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1949). Halm C. Halm, Rhetores Latini minores (Leipzig, 1863): Victorious' commen­ tary on De I. LR. ad A. The thirteenth-century Latin version of the Rhetorica ad Alexan­ drum, edited by M. Grabmann (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Abteilung, 1931/32, Heft 4 [Munich, 1932]). References to this text, by page and line, are followed by the Stephanus page references to the Greek text (R. ad A.). Q. H. E. Butler, ed. and trans., Quintilian, Institutio oratoria (London, 1921-1922). R. ad A. H. Rackham, ed. and trans., Pseudo-Aristotle, Rhetorica ad Alexandrum (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1965). R. ad H. H. Caplan, ed. and trans., Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1954). Rhet. J. H. Freese, ed. and trans., Aristotle, The "Art" ofRhetoric (Cam­ bridge, Mass., and London, 1939). T Todros Todrosi's Hebrew translation of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, cited as paged in Goldenthal 's edition ( g 'O). TIA Todros/Averroes. Other abbrevations B The Hebrew Bible: T"nakh (T[orah]- N["bhi"'im]- K["thubhim]). C, i/C The editio princeps of Sepher Nopheth Suphfm, printed by Abraham Conat at Mantua, 1475/76. C R The copy of the Conat incunabulum owned by William Roth of New York City, and used in the preparation of this edition. DML Rabbi David Messer Leon, son of JML. JML Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, author of Sepher Nopheth Suphfm. JV The Jewish Publication Society's English version of B (a revision of the King James Version) (Philadelphia, 1917). KJV The King James Version of the Old Testament, published 1611. M, :>/M The Milan Ambrosian Library MS (cod. Ambrosiana 91) of Sepher Nopheth Suphim, dated 1474. N.S. Sepher Nopheth Suphfm: The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow. [Ps. 19:11]. Abbreviations and Signs xiii Books of the Bible Gen(esis) 1 "1::J Ezek(iel) 'M' Ps(alms) ':,r, Exod( us) 1 IJ!V Hos(ea) 'i:, Prov(erbs) 'lVIJ Lev(iticus) ,,, Joel 1,l(i• Job :JP!( Num(bers) ';>J::J Amos '7Jl7 Song of S(ongs) w":,w Deut(eronomy) ':ii Obad(iah) 'il7 Ruth ri,-, Josh(ua) 'i:,• Jonah :,l,­ Lam(entations) :,:,•I( Judg(es) '!Jill! Mic(ah) ''IJ Eccl(esiastes) ':,p I Sam(uel) l("IJ!V Nah(um) 'Ml Esth(er) 'Cl( 2 Sam(uel) ::J111JlV Hab(akkuk) ':in Dan(iel) 'li I Kings l(" 1m Zeph(aniah) '!Jl Ezra 'Tl7 2 Kings ::J1171J Hag(gai) 'ln Neh(emiah) 1 1JMl Isa(iah) 'lV' Zech(ariah) 1 :::>T 1 Chr(oni cles) l(":,i Jer(emiah) ,-,, Mal(achi) '77J 2 Chr(onicles) :::i":,i .