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Or 4598

Record Id:
032-003312273
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032-003312273
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Or 4598
Title:
Collection of astronomical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios,40 folios,27 folios)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4598 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ben David Bonjorn, Jacob, fl 14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081221606,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/43519705
Ben David Bonjorn, Jacob, fl 14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081221606,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/43519705
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, of Tarascon, fl 14th century
W.H. Black
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4598

Collection of astronomical works

Contents

Collection of astronomical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-90v
Title: Ḳovets be-astronomiyah
Title: קובץ באסטרונומיה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Foliation:

90 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Condition

Tidemarks at foot and foredge.

Slight foxing in margins.

Various usage stains, finger dirt, ink smears.

Additions:

Folios 1-7: calendar entries for 14 years, Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Folio 90: an English description of the manuscript by Samuel Hart, written at the request of then owner, W.H. Black, in 1828.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, with the title gold-tooled on the back cover.

Spine: 'Treatises on the Calendar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 4598.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

W.H. Black: purchased by the British Museum from him: inscribed, folio 90v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 8r-22r
Title: Seder sod ha-῾ibur
Title: סדר סוד העבור

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 15 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 8-22

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 29

Written lines: 28 29

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking.

Visible horizontal hard-point ruling and vertical ink ruling.

Square initial words.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Folio 22r: an additional piece written by a later Italian hand.

History

Origin: 16th century

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 23r-62v
Author: Ben David Bonjorn, Jacob, active 14th century בוניט, יעקב בן דוד בן יום טוב הפועל
Title: Luḥot ha-po῾el
Title: לוחות הפועל

Folios 32r-62v contain calendrical tables, e.g. 12 tables for the months of the year (folios 32r-37v) or the tables for the years 1361 to 1393 (38r-53r).

Physical Description

Fragments of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 40 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155/145 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 23-62

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30 33

Written lines: 30 33

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking.

Visible horizontal hard-point ruling and vertical ink ruling.

Square initial words.

Calendrical tables.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 63r-89r
Author: Bonfils, Immanuel ben Yaaqov, active 14th century עמנואל בן יעקב
Title: Shesh kenafim
Title: שש כנפים

The tables are divided into 6 parts ('kenafim'), like the explanatory matter at the beginning.

Physical Description

Fragments of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 27 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 63-89

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 41

Written lines: 41

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking.

Visible horizontal hard-point ruling and vertical ink ruling.

Square initial words.

Calendrical tables.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

Additional Information

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=Or_4598 (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. 1011.

Funding of Cataloguing

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