Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

ʻIr siḥon

Authors

• Sarfati, Joseph ben Moses, fl. ca. 1400-1450

Other related names

• Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842, former owner
• Jews' College (London, England), former owner
• Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain), former owner

Call number

LJS 312
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954111003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773214886
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5411100

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Spain

Summary

Mathematical work on basic calculations, including business or commercial arithmetic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

58 leaves : 133 x 99 (101 x 65) mm. bound to 137 x 116 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern) + i (early) + 58 + i (modern); 1¹²(-1) 2-4¹²; [1-58], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century Italian gilt-tooled calf, rebacked, with ribbon marker.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines.

Script

Written in semi-cursive Hebrew script in a single hand, except for one leaf in another hand (f. 11).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Solomon Hirschel, first Chief Rabbi of London.
   
• Formerly held in the library of Jews' College (London; stamp, early flyleaf), no. 137 (inscription).
   
• Formerly held in the library of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Ashkenazi rabbinical court, London), no. 133 (spine).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie, Manson & Woods as part of the collection of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah, 23 Jun. 1999, lot 100, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Business mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Mathematics
• Spain
• Sephardi
• Paper

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Decorations

• fol. 5r — Table, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Table, f. 6v
• fol. 9r — Table, f. 9r
• fol. 13r — Table, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Table, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Table, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Table, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Table, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Table, f. 17v
• fol. 20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 23r — Table, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Table, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Table, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Table, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Table, f. 26r
• fol. 27r — Table, f. 27r
• fol. 28r — Table, f. 28r
• fol. 29r — Table, f. 29r
• fol. 30r — Table, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Table, f. 30v