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- Sefer ha-yesodot by Euclid
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- 177 folios
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- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
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Add MS 20746
Sefer ha-yesodot by Euclid
Contents
An mathematical treatise.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1v-177vTitle: Sefer ha-yesodotTitle: ספר היסודותThe thirteen Books of the Elements of Euclid, with the addition of two Books at the end which are ascribed to Hypsikles. The Hebrew translator was Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon. Figures throughout the manuscript.
Book ii begins on folio 15v; book iii, folio 23r; book iv, folio 35r; book v, folio 41v; book vi, folio 51v; book vii, folio 64r; book viii, folio 70v; book ix, folio folio 80v; book x, folio 89r; book xi, folio 135v; book xii, folio 151r; book, folio xiii, folio 160v.
Folio 177v gives a list of fifteen books with the number of figures belonging to each, the entire number being stated to be 466. The Numbers of the figures are also stated in later writing at the end of the different books.
Folios 101-102 contain a fragment of a work on arithmetic (in a later Ashkenazi script).
Author, Moses ibn Tibbon's colophon on folio 177r.
Latin inscription on folio 1r suggesting erroneously that the MS was written by the translator Moses ibn Tibbon in 1270 (see author's colophon).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: mixedSupport: Paper, in most cases with inner and outer sheets of quires made of parchment.Extent: 177 foliosDimensions (leaf): 280 × 200/205 mm.Dimensions (written): 205 × 140 mm.Foliation:177 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folio 9 is double, there is no folio 10.
Collation
10 quires: i18, ii-iv20, v16, vi20, vii18, viii-ix16, x14-1.
Condition
Ink spills.
Tidemarks.
Foxing at edges.
Iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 26
Written lines: 26
Uniform layout.
Ruling by hard point, leaf by leaf on verso.
Larger square initials.
Marginal notes and additions, sometimes folded by later binder.
Leaf catchwords and numbering of the paragraphs inconsistently carried out.
Portions of the text reduplicated on folios 78v- 79r, and folios 133v-134r respectively.
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.
Decoration
Numerous diagrams throughout the MS.
Additions:Folios 101-102 are later addition (belonging to approximately 17th century).
Folios 60 and 93 are modern restorations.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Euclidis Elementorum Libri A.R. Mose Aben Tibbon Versi Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Additional 20,746.'
History
Origin: 15th century ; Spain?Provenance and Acquisition
Illegible ownership entry, crossed out. f. 1r
A record of sale of the manuscript, written by Natan ben Yitsḥaḳ Yaʿaḳov Bon from Reuven ben Horgo(?) dated 1633: קניתי זה הספר בק"ק אלטונייא אצל ק"ק האמבורג מן היתום ראובן בן חורגו של ש"ב כמר יעקב בר שמואל זלה"ה נאם נתן בן לא"א(?) יצחק יעקב בון זלה"ה היום יום שני לסדר כי תשא שנת השצג לפק.. f. 1r
1855-05-26
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 26 May 1855: inscribed (back flyleaf i[v]).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_20746 (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. 1001.Funding of Cataloguing
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