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Title

Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim

Authors

• Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, ca. 1065-ca. 1136

Other related names

• Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865, former owner
• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 472
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958607923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819406162
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860792

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Spain?

Summary

15th-century copy of the second part of a 12th-century two-part treatise, on astronomy (the first part, not present in this manuscript, discussed geography). Includes computations for solar and lunar eclipses between 1135 and 1136. Numerous marginal notes were preserved when the manuscript was trimmed, leaving tabs that have been folded in.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

98 leaves : 197 x 135 (161 x 85) mm., not including folded note tabs, bound to 205 x 147 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern) + 2 (modern) + 94 + i (modern); [i-ii, 1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper over boards.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines.

Script

Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script, with marginal notes in later hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
   
• Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 110.
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 422 (label inside lower cover, Montefiore MS. 422).
   
• Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 307, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Medieval
• Jewish astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Spain
• Jewish
• Annotated
• Treatise
• Astronomy
• Paper

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