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Or 4597

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032-003314052
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Or 4597
Title:
Tsurat ha-arets by Abraham ben Hiyya Savasorda
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
35 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
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Or 4597

Tsurat ha-arets by Abraham ben Hiyya Savasorda

Contents

Astronomical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-35v
Title: Tsurat ha-arets
Title: צורת הארץ
Author: Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, 1065-1136 אברהם בן חיא, הנשיא

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 35 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

35 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated paper plus 1 vellum flyleaf at the end).

Collation

3 quires of 10 leaves each (folios 1-30), marked with signatures and catchwords at the end, followed by 5 leaves and a flyleaf.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.

Marginal notes and additions throughout.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Diagrams in the margins, e.g., folios 12v, 15r, 16r, 18r, 18v, 20v, 23r, 23v, 24r.

Erasures, folio 18r.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive of the 14th to 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'Surath Ha-Ares. Abraham bar Hiyya. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4597.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1623 (folio 35v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 35v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Alessandro Scipione, Italian censor (active 1593-1599, Mantua): inscribed with his name, 1593 (folio 35v).

Bought by the British Museum from Quaritch, 17 January 1893: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4597 (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. 1006.
    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. 209-210.

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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