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Title

Marʼeh ha-ofanim ... etc.

Authors

• Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230

Other related names

• Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, 1384-, translator
• Tibon, Yehudah ibn, approximately 1120-approximately 1190, attributed name
• Finzi, Mazliah, former owner
• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 494
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959630913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847856746
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5963091

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1425 and 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

Hebrew translation of a fundamental treatise on medieval astronomy and cosmology that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth divided into climactic zones at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe. Followed by Ruaḥ ha-ḥen, a 13th-century philosophical work that was a popular introduction to science, here attributed to Yehudah ibn Tibon. It has also been attributed to Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli and Zeraḥyah ha-Yeṿani. Occasional marginal notes. Final page contains Hebrew notes and pen trials by various hands (f. 22v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Briquet Tête de boeuf à yeux 14871 (Brescia, 1434-1445).

Extent

22 leaves : 209 x 151 (143 x 104) mm. bound to 220 x 186 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern) + 22 + xxxv (modern); 1¹² 2¹⁰; [1-22], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century half morocco over cloth; gatherings sewn on stubs.

Layout

Written in 31-34 long lines; ruled in faint ink for horizontals with vertical bounding lines in lead.

Decoration

3 astronomical diagrams (f. 1v, 2v, 10r); occasional manicules (f. 9v, 13r).

Script

Written in Ashkenazic semi-cursive script by 2 hands (f. 1r-11v, 12r-22r).

Provenance

• Possible ownership inscription: Mazliah Finzi (possibly Mazliah ben Zacharias Finzi of Parma, f. 22v).
   
• Formerly owned by Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam (ms. 244, Montefiore label inside upper cover; number in pencil, f. 1r).
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 424 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 424; gilt number on spine; stamps, f. 1r, 22v; number in pencil, f. 1r).
   
• Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 309.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, August 2008.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Cosmography--Early works to 1800
• Jewish philosophy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Diagrams
• Treatise
• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Philosophy
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 9v — Manicule, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 22v — Stamp, f. 22v