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Or 3658

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032-003314050
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Or 3658
Title:
Collection of astronomical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
1 volume (10 folios,47 folios,17 folios)
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Start Date:
1500
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1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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Names:
Aless[andro] Scipione
Botarel, Moses ben Isaac, 14th century-15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000053356992,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/52430162
Botarel, Moses ben Isaac, 14th century-15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000053356992,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/52430162
Dominico Irosolomitano
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machi, 1236?-1304?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000445900862,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79269165,
Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machi, 1236?-1304?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000445900862,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79269165,
Joseph Schlesinger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 3658

Collection of astronomical works

Contents

A collection of astronomical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-75v
Title: Astronomiyah
Title: אסטרונומיה

Physical Description

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

75 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on separate guards.

Condition

Tidemarks at head and foot.

Mould spots.

Slight worming.

Damp damage with text loss in a few places.

Corroded ink on first 10 folios, repaired and silked.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Farissol. Moses Botarel. Astronomical Tables. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 3,658.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Africa, N.?

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 57v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Alessandro Scipione, Italian censor (active 1590-1599, Mantua): inscribed with his name, 1592 (folio 57v).

1845-03-08

Joseph Schlesinger: purchased by the British Museum from him on 02 March 1889: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-3r
Author: Botarel, Moses ben Isaac, active 14th-15th century פריצול, בוטריל משה
Title: Perush luḥot Paris
Title: פרוש לוחות פריס

A work on the astronomical tables based on the latitude of Paris; the tables themselves are not given.

ff. 4r-10v
Author: Botarel, Moses ben Isaac, active 14th-15th century פריצול, בוטריל משה
Title: Be᾿ur ῾al ha-luḥot
Title: באור על הלוחות

Another work on astronomical tables by Moses Botarel, without the tables themselves. The treatise is divided into 12 tracts. There are references to the study of astronomical tables by Levi ben Gershom.

Physical Description

Fragments of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 10 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 123 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-10

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout.

Ink ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century ; Africa, N.?

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 11r-57r
Title: ῾Al ha-luḥot
Title: על הלוחות

Astronomical tables, with explanations accompanying the earlier ones, bearing mainly on the postitions of the planets. On the top of folio 11r there is a list of the tables. Folios 14r-15v deal with the movements of the stars in other relations, and folios 17r-57r with the true position of the sun, the planets, and the constellations.

Physical Description

Fragments of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 47 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 11-57.

Hebrew foliation between folios 12 and 57.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes.

Tables.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 58r-64r
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164 עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר אבן
Title: Keli ha-neḥoshet
Title: כלי הנחושת

The main text is accompanied with frequent comments, written partly within the page and partly in the margin. Many expository notes are headed 'Shelomoh'.

ff. 64r-74v
Author: Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir, 1236- יעקב בן מכיר
Title: Rova῾ Yisra᾿el
Title: רובע ישראל

A treatise on the quadrant invented by the author.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 17 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 58-74

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout.

Many marginal and infralinear annotations.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African?) semi-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_3658 (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. 1015.

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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