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Add MS 27039

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032-003313885
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Add MS 27039
Title:
Collection of mathematical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
184 folios
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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:
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Names:
Gad Astruk ben Jacob
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Pacioli, Luca, 1445?-1517,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045039129X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/87677562
Pacioli, Luca, 1445?-1517,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045039129X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/87677562
גד אשטרוק בן יעקב
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27039

Collection of mathematical works

Contents

A collection of mathematical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-184v
Title: Ḳovets
Title: קובץ
ff. 3r-116r
Title: Dine memunot
Title: דיני ממונות

In twelve sections.

Author: Gad Astruk ben Jacob גד אשטרוק בן יעקב
ff. 116r-184v
Title: Liḳutim be-matematiḳah
Title: לקוטים במתמטיקה

Extracts from "Summa Arithmeticae et Geometricae" of Frate Luca Pacioli, first published in Venice in 1494. The extracts from part 1 finish on folio 126v; those from part 2 on folio 169v; and the third part is similarly dealt with to the end of the manuscript.

The entire number of extracts is 381.

Author: Pacioli, Luca פצ'יולו, לוקה

References

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 184 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

184 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation, from folio 3-184.

Collation

Irregular quiring.

Condition

Slight tidemark at bottom corner.

Some paper foxing in margin.

Various usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 31

Written lines: 28 31

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Mathematical diagrams on numerous pages.

Marginal enumeration of sections.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Gad Astruc. Dine Memonoth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,039.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giovanni Domenico Carretto (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, folio 3r; see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

An erased censor's signature, folio 184v, dated 1618.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 288: 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 (ii)v.

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_27039 (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. 1014.

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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