LJS 476 Yesod ʻolam
Title
Yesod ʻolamAuthors
- Israeli, Isaac ben Joseph, 14th cent
Other related names
- Dessauer, M. 1842-1895, former owner
- Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (Hungary), former owner
Call number
LJS 476(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9958580733503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818666644
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5858073
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
HebrewOrigin
Written in Spain or Italy, ca. 1460.
- Date
- ca. 1460
- Place
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Spain or Italy
Summary
Partial copy of an introduction to astronomy. Manuscript text is divided in 3 books, with the first book addressing geometry and trigonometry; the second, the structure and position of the Earth; and the third, the movement of the sun and moon and equinoxes and eclipses. The fourth book of the text, on the application of astronomy to the Jewish calendar, and the fifth book, containing canon tables, are not present in this manuscript.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent
70 leaves : 198 x 136 (140 x 88) mm. bound to 210 x 146 mmCollation
Parchment and paper, i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁸ 2-3²⁰ 4²⁰(-8); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left and upper center recto. Gatherings have outermost and central bifolia of parchment with paper bifolia in between.Support
Parchment and paperBinding
Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps.Layout
Decoration
37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams.
Script
Provenance
- Formerly owned by Moritz Dessauer, founding rabbi of the synagogue in Meiningen; inscription, Geschenk des Landrabbiners Dr. M. Dessauer in Meiningen, recording gift by Dessauer to unknown recipient (inside lower cover).
- Formerly in the library of Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (the Rabbincal Seminary of Budapest).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Fall 2005.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Subjects topical
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
- Astronomy, Medieval
- Jewish astronomy--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Diagrams
- Treatises
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- 15th century
- Spain
- Italy
- Jewish
- Treatise
- Astronomy
- Paper
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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- URL
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Decorations
- fol. 2r — Diagram, f. 2r
- fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
- fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
- fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
- fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
- fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
- fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
- fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
- fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
- fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
- fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
- fol. 22r — Diagram, f. 22r
- fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
- fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
- fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
- fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
- fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
- fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
- fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
- fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
- fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
- fol. 42v — Diagram, f. 42v
- fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
- fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
- fol. 47r — Diagram, f. 47r
- fol. 48r — Diagram, f. 48r
- fol. 48v — Diagram, f. 48v
- fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
- fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
- fol. 50r — Diagram, f. 50r
- fol. 53r — Diagram, f. 53r
- fol. 56r — Diagram, f. 56r
- fol. 57r — Diagram, f. 57r
- fol. 57v — Diagram, f. 57v
- fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
- fol. 60r — Diagram, f. 60r
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