 The extent to which Ibn Rushd took precedence over other sources of Aristotelianism is quite startling. A typical example is Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera, whose introduction to his thirteenth-century encyclopedia clarifies that “all that I write are the words of Aristotle as explained in the commentaries of the scholar Averroes, for he was the last of the commentators and he incorporated what was best from the [earlier] commentaries” (in  Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera §4).  Each of the various types of Rushdian commentary had their champions at different times. Here is the advice of Moses Almosnino from the sixteenth-century: “do not squander your time with the epitomes and middle commentaries of Averroes, but read only the long commentaries, for if you read the long commentaries carefully you will have no need to read any other book in order to understand anything of natural science” (in Harvey 1985, 61).