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Add MS 15977
Title:
Yesod ῾olam by Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
200 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef, 13th century-14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000045747336,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21765128
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef, 13th century-14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000045747336,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21765128
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Add MS 15977

Yesod ῾olam by Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef

Contents

An astronomical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-200v
Title: Yesod ῾olam
Title: יסוד עולם
Author: Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef הישראלי, יצחק בן יוסף

See the printed edition of Berlin, 1777 and 1848.

Contains numerous tables and diagrams.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 200 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

200 folios (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 6 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 to 12 leaves each.

Condition

Lacuna after folio 171.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 38

Written lines: 38

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Larger square headings and initial words.

Marginal notes and additions, including diagrams.

Diagrams, partly in red ink (e.g. folio 91r, 95v, 107v etc.).

Tables, partly decorated in pen and ink, folios 173r-200r.

Repeated words at the beginning of folios.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather. Boxed.

Spine: 'Yesodh 'Olam. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 15,977.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1846-07-04

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: inscribed, folio 200v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15977 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1009.

Funding of Cataloguing

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