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Title

Bet Elohim

Authors

• Almosnino, Moses ben Baruch, ca. 1515-ca. 1580

Other related names

• Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, 1384-, translator
• Afia, Aharon, translator
• Luzio, Chaim, scribe
• Ashkenazi, Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz, former owner
• Kuzi, Yitzhak Nahum, former owner

Call number

LJS 42
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957977613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801812358
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797761

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

1551

Place

Thessalonikē

Summary

Commentary on Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor's Hebrew translation of Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi, followed by a commentary on a Hebrew translation, possibly by Almosnino himself, of Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum, with the assistance of Aharon Afia. This copy was made 5 years after the works were composed in 1546 (f. 168r). Almosnino's commentary on Sacro Bosco includes the earliest reference in Jewish literature to Amerigo Vespucci and America (f. 23v), among discussion of other geographical discoveries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

162 leaves : 268 x 177 (198-208 x 122-135) mm. bound to 276 x 195 mm

Foliation

Paper, vi (later paper) + 162 + i (later paper); 7-168, early foliation in ink, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early (16th-century?) Greek blind-stamped goatskin over pasteboards; leaves from 19th-century Parisian publications pasted inside covers.

Layout

Written in 40 long lines; commentary set in text in half-width columns.

Decoration

9 diagrams in color (f. 31v, 77v, 82v, 88r, 102v, 105v, 116r, 119r, 126v) and numerous diagrams in black ink, set in text; 4 tables (f. 44r, 47r, 48v, 54v) in black ink

Script

Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r).

Provenance

• Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi (colophons, f. 76r, 168r).
   
• Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902 (inscription, flyleaf).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (Jerusalem), 24 May 1987, lot 52.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1991, lot 47, 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
• Planetary theory--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Jewish
• Commentary
• Diagrams
• Astronomy
• Paper
• Greece

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