Two Notes on the Identification of Two Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on thePhysics

Abstract

In the following notes I wish to tell the stories of two anonymous Hebrew commentaries on the Physics, which were wrongly identified by Steinschneider. I maintain that both commentaries were written in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century and that Steinschneider^ earlier dating obscured the picture of the development of Hebrew scholarship in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.1 The first text has not been studied before; the second was studied several times, but its confusing structure kept its story from being understood properly.