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Add MS 26984
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- Add MS 26984
- Title:
- Collection of astronomical works
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 231 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26984 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1400-1499
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26984
Collection of astronomical works
Contents
Astronomical works.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 2r-8vTitle: Ma῾aseh keli ha-habaṭahTitle: מעשה כלי ההבטהA work on astrolabe ascribed to Ptolemy, in a Hebrew translation.
ff. 9r-21vTitle: Mofete ḥokhmat ha-shi῾urTitle: מופתי חכמת השעורA work containing mathematical demonstrations regarding the astrolabe, ascribed to Ptolemy.
ff. 22r-31rTitle: Be᾿ur ῾asiyat keli ha-astrolabTitle: באור עשיית כלי האשטרולבff. 31v-75rTitle: Igeret ha-astrolabTitle: אגרת האשטרולבff. 65v-72rGeometrical figures, in red and black ink.ff. 75v-93rTitle: Keli ha-neḥoshetTitle: כלי הנחושתff. 93v-134vTitle: Meyasher ῾iḳuvTitle: מיישר עקובA treatise on the quadrature of the circle, with diagrams.
Folios 128v-134v have been left blank.
ff. 135r-201vTitle: ῾Arukh ha-ḥilufTitle: ערך החלוףff. 202r-231vTitle: Ribu῾a Yisra᾿elTitle: רובע ישראלPhysical Description
Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: mixedSupport: Paper and parchment.Extent: 231 foliosDimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.Foliation:231 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 16 leaves each (the outer and the middle leaf of each quire are parchment).
Condition
Tidemark at foredge.
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 23 24
Written lines: 23 24
Uniform layout.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Many marginal notes and additions throughout.
Initial words written in larger characters.
Catchwords on most of the versos.
Some blank leaves left.
Diagrams and geometrical figures, folios 65r-72r, 176r, 183v.
Hand(s)
Sefardi cursive and semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.
ff. 1r-22randff. 31v-228rare due to two different but contemporary Sefardi hands.ff. 22r-26rcontain additions in various hands.Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Astronomical Treatises. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26984.'
History
Origin: 15th century ; ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Yosef ben Ya῾aḳov: inscribed, folio 228r.
Folio 231v: a list of names: Jacobus Ferrarius, Giuseppe Maimoni, Finas Sacerdotti, Jacobus [...].
Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1592 (folio 228r); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 96: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)i.
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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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26984 (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. 1002.Bibliography
[Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.Funding of Cataloguing
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