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Title

Perush sefer ha-yesodot shel Uklids

Call number

LJS 491
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5962660
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962660

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1750?

Place

Italy?

Summary

Treatise presenting mathematical propositions with commentary referring to Euclid and to Arabic scholars such as Abū Naṣr Manṣūr. European forms of arabic numerals appear in the text on one page (f. 36r). A former wrapper or divider, now bound in at the beginning (f. 1, 40), has a title in a later hand that suggests that this manuscript is the second part of a larger work, seconded by an Italian note in pencil, Discorso 2o (f. 1r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by Yacov Fuchs (National Library of Israel).
   

Watermark

Crown over 3 fleurs-de-lis in a heart shape, all surrounded by crossed leafy branches and surmounted by an orb topped with a cross, perhaps produced in Berne or Basel and used in northern Italy.

Extent

40 leaves : 305 x 208 (205 x 135-140) mm. bound to 315 x 220 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 40 + i; 1² 2¹⁰ 3-6⁶ 7⁶(-2); [i-ii], 1-12, 17-38, contemporary foliation in ink using Hebrew characters, upper left recto; 1, 40, 2-39, modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern parchment over card.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines.

Script

Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script, with headings in square script.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2007.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--17th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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