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Or 1056

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Or 1056
Title:
Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim by Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
62 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1056 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
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Or 1056

Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim by Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda

Contents

Astronomical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-62v
Title: Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim
Title: חשבון מהלכות הכוכבים

An astronomical work in 20 chapters.

On folios 58r-62r there are 4 additional short pieces, accompanied by a number of marginal notes in different hands, of which several have been crossed through.

Author: Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, 1065-1136 אברהם בן חיא, הנשיא
Colophon: נשלם הספר הזה והוא חשבון המהלך לנשיאנו הגדול לר' אברהם צרצא אל שרטה זק"ל בן הנשיא ר' חייא זצ"ל במדינת ברצלונא שנת תתצו כב לעומר יום ו' חצות היום והוא עשירי לאבריל מחדשי חמה. f. 58v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 13th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 62 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 86 mm.
Foliation:

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

Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Folios 1-3 mutilated (repaired before rebinding).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Many marginal notes and additions throughout.

Parts of text supplied in Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive of the 13th to 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'Cheshbon Mahalakhot. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1056.'

History

Origin: 13th-14th century ; Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

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_1056 (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. 1004.
    Sandman, Israel M. 'The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy', in: Texts in Transit in the medieval Mediterranean/ eds. Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 198-221, esp. pp. 208-209.

Funding of Cataloguing

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