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Title

Yesod ʻolam

Authors

• 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 Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

ca. 1460

Place

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 mm

Collation

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 paper

Binding

Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps.

Layout

Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.

Decoration

37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams.

Script

Written in Sephardic Hebrew 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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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