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Title

Tsurat ha-arets ... etc.

Authors

• Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, ca. 1065-ca. 1136
• Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, 14th cent
• Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1035
• Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461
• Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164

Other related names

• Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir, b. ca. 1236, translator
• Mizraḥi, Ephraim, translator
• Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865, former owner
• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 498
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957001503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785900592
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5700150

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

ca. 1542-1599

Place

Gratz?

Summary

Collection of astronomical texts in Hebrew from source texts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Subjects include geography, the Ptolemaic model of the universe, solar and lunar eclipses, and the astrolabe. Frequent marginal notes and glosses, some from copied from known commentaries to these works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title supplied for first work by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Aigle à deux têtes 285 (f. 45, 48; Gratz, 1594-1598; Millstatt (Carinthie), 1597-1600; Vienna, 1599) and Aigle à deux têtes 282 (Gratz, 1580; Osnabruck, 1588); similar to Briquet, Aigle à deux têtes 291 (f. 189; Gratz, 1598; Kempten, 1607-1627).

Extent

204 leaves : 201 x 150 (130-155 x 92-120) mm. bound to 210 x 172 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 204 + iii (modern paper); [1-204], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto; contemporary foliation using Hebrew letters in ink visible on some leaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half morocco over cloth

Layout

Written in 20-27 long lines.

Decoration

25 full-page diagrams, numerous small diagrams in text; some rubrication in red; tables in red and black (f. 107r-133v).

Script

Written in Ashkenazi semi-cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Possible ownership inscription: Yitshaq Cohen (f. 1; Les Enluminures).
   
• Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto (Les Enluminures).
   
• Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S.J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 134 (Halberstam number on Montefiore label, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 423 (gilt spine, Montefiore MS. 423; label inside upper cover).
   
• Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899 (Les Enluminures).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 308.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in memory of Martin L. Fine, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Medieval
• Jewish astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Geography, Medieval

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• Annotated
• Commentary
• Diagrams
• Astronomy
• Paper
• Austria
• Jewish

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Partial copy of Tsurat ha-arets, f. 1r
• fol. 67r — Abridgement of Tsurat ha-arets, f. 67r
• fol. 79r — Shesh kenafayim, f. 79r
• fol. 134r — Keli ha-itst?rolav, f. 134r
• fol. 148r — ?Iyyun ha-kokhavim ha-meshartim, f. 148r
• fol. 197r — Diagrams, f. 197r
• fol. 199r — Keli ha-neh?oshet, f. 199r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 19r — Diagram, f. 19r
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 33r — Diagram, f. 33r
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
• fol. 38v — Diagram, f. 38v
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 64v — Diagram, f. 64v
• fol. 65r — Diagram, f. 65r
• fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
• fol. 70v — Diagram, f. 70v
• fol. 71v — Diagram, f. 71v
• fol. 72r — Diagram, f. 72r
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r
• fol. 73v — Diagram, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r
• fol. 81r — Table, f. 81r
• fol. 81v — Table, f. 81v
• fol. 84r — Table, f. 84r
• fol. 100v — Table, f. 100v
• fol. 105v — Table, f. 105v
• fol. 106r — Table, f. 106r
• fol. 106v — Table, f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Table, f. 107r
• fol. 107v — Table, f. 107v
• fol. 108v — Table, f. 108v
• fol. 109r — Table, f. 109r
• fol. 109v — Table, f. 109v
• fol. 110r — Table, f. 110r
• fol. 110v — Table, f. 110v
• fol. 111r — Table, f. 111r
• fol. 111v — Table, f. 111v
• fol. 112v — Table, f. 112v
• fol. 113r — Table, f. 113r
• fol. 113v — Table, f. 113v
• fol. 114r — Table, f. 114r
• fol. 114v — Table, f. 114v
• fol. 115r — Table, f. 115r
• fol. 115v — Table, f. 115v
• fol. 116r — Table, f. 116r
• fol. 116v — Table, f. 116v
• fol. 117r — Table, f. 117r
• fol. 117v — Table, f. 117v
• fol. 118r — Table, f. 118r
• fol. 118v — Table, f. 118v
• fol. 119r — Table, f. 119r
• fol. 119v — Table, f. 119v
• fol. 120r — Table, f. 120r
• fol. 120v — Table, f. 120v
• fol. 121r — Table, f. 121r
• fol. 121v — Table, f. 121v
• fol. 122r — Table, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — Table, f. 122v
• fol. 123r — Table, f. 123r
• fol. 123v — Table, f. 123v
• fol. 124r — Table, f. 124r
• fol. 124v — Table, f. 124v
• fol. 125r — Table, f. 125r
• fol. 125v — Table, f. 125v
• fol. 126r — Table, f. 126r
• fol. 126v — Table, f. 126v
• fol. 127r — Table, f. 127r
• fol. 127v — Table, f. 127v
• fol. 128r — Table, f. 128r
• fol. 128v — Table, f. 128v
• fol. 129r — Table, f. 129r
• fol. 129v — Table, f. 129v
• fol. 130r — Table, f. 130r
• fol. 130v — Table, f. 130v
• fol. 131r — Table, f. 131r
• fol. 131v — Table, f. 131v
• fol. 132r — Table, f. 132r
• fol. 132v — Table, f. 132v
• fol. 133r — Table, f. 133r
• fol. 133v — Table, f. 133v
• fol. 173r — Diagram, f. 173r
• fol. 174v — Diagram, f. 174v
• fol. 175r — Diagram, f. 175r
• fol. 175v — Diagram, f. 175v
• fol. 176r — Diagram, f. 176r
• fol. 176v — Diagram, f. 176v
• fol. 177r — Diagram, f. 177r
• fol. 177v — Diagram, f. 177v
• fol. 178r — Diagram, f. 178r
• fol. 178v — Diagram, f. 178v
• fol. 179r — Diagram, f. 179r
• fol. 179v — Diagram, f. 179v
• fol. 180r — Diagram, f. 180r
• fol. 180v — Diagram, f. 180v
• fol. 181r — Diagram, f. 181r
• fol. 181v — Diagram, f. 181v
• fol. 183r — Diagram, f. 183r
• fol. 185r — Diagram, f. 185r
• fol. 188r — Table, f. 188r
• fol. 189v — Diagram, f. 189v
• fol. 189v — Table, f. 189v
• fol. 192r — Diagram, f. 192r
• fol. 195r — Diagram, f. 195r
• fol. 197r — Diagram, f. 197r
• fol. 198r — Diagram, f. 198r
• fol. 202v — Stamp, f. 202v