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Or 12277

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Or 12277
Title:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda's Tsurat ha-ʾarets
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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:
36 folios (v+36+iv)
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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CE
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Names:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Judah ben Moses
Lipa Schwager
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Or 12277

Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda's Tsurat ha-ʾarets

Contents

Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda's astronomical treatise, Tsurat ha-ʾarets.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-36v
Author: Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, approximately 1065-approximately 1136 אברהם בן חיא, הנשיא
Title: צורת הארץ
Title: Tsurat ha-ʾarets
Incipit: בעזרת היושב על חוג הארץ

Imcomplete at the end, only until the middle of Chapter 10.

F. 1r: "חרוז אחד מיוסד ... על גלגלי כדור הנקרא איספירא לר’ שלמה בר’ אברהם אביגדור".

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 36 folios (v+36+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 236 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 162 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

4 quires: i8, ii-iii10, iv10-2.

Catchword and signature in Hebrew characters at the end of quires.

Condition

Usage stains.

Water damage.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout. Section headings are often written in larger, square characters.

Even left margins.

A few marginal notes.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 14th-15th century; vocalised.

Decoration

Diagrams on ff. 13r, 13v, 16r, 16v, 17v, 19v, 20v, 23r, 25v, 26v, 27r.

Additions:

A description of the MS, taken from one of Schwager-Frankel’s catalogues, is glued onto f. 1r.

F. 4v: glosses added by an owner, Judah ben Moses.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'OR 12277.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note by new owner Judah ben Moses on f. 4v: יהודה בכמר משה מפאנו יצ"ו קנה זה בשלו' ובמישור לילך לבו

Lipa Schwager (1882-1961) book seller: inscribed with his name on f. 1r.

Gaster apparently purchased the MS from Lipa Schwager (see printed excerpt from his catalogue describing the MS fixed on f. 1r).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 982: inscribed with his name on ff. 1r, 36v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 18 March 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12277 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    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.

Bibliography

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