Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Zeh Sefer Uklidus ha-Haham.

Authors

• Euclid
• Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund

Other related names

• Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir, approximately 1236-, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86041195)

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1787
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968520523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958328244
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ff3m26w http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366224

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew, with marginal notes in Italian on the first page (f. 3r)

Origin

Date

1704

Place

Italy

Summary

Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements, probably in the 13th-century translation of Jacob ben Machir, comprising Books 1-13 of the Elements and the apocryphal Books 14-15, often attributed to Hypsicles. Marginal notes and occasional corrections added in Hebrew (through f. 61r); marginal notes in Italian on first page (f. 3r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

186 leaves : 310 x 225 (210 x 145) mm bound to 330 x 245 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 186 + i; 1² 2-47⁴; [1-186], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Front pastedown and flyleaf and back pastedown and flyleaf formed by wrapping two sheets of lighter paper around the first and last gatherings and cutting off the inner leaves to stubs (mathematical calculations are written on the leaf used for the back pastedown and stub). Gatherings signed with Hebrew letters, upper right first recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (early 18th-century) quarter vellum over paper boards; paper spine label with title in ink; spine damaged.

Layout

Written in 28-31 long lines; ruled in drypoint between prickings at the edge of the text block.

Decoration

Architectural title page in ink with calligraphic title (f. 1r); numerous small geometric diagrams added by multiple hands through Book 6 (f. 3r-61r) and occasionally pasted in (for example, f. 15r, 58r); open spaces in text for diagrams in Books 7-15.

Script

Written in Italian semicursive Hebrew script, with initial words in square script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York), 22 December 2015, lot 13.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry
• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Hebrew

Keywords

• Treatise
• 18th century
• Italian
• Jewish
• Diagrams
• Paper
• Italy
• Mathematics

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Title page border, f. 1r