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Or 10785

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Or 10785
Title:
Sefer ha-mispar by Abraham ibn Ezra
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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:
39 folios (i+39+ii)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1647
End Date:
1647
Date Range:
1647
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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
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Or 10785

Sefer ha-mispar by Abraham ibn Ezra

Contents

A mathematical work on arithmetic.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-36r
Author: אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164
Title: ספר המספר
Title: Sefer ha-mispar

Title on f. 1r: סוד המספר להחכם ר"א ן’ עזרא.

Colophon: תם ונשלם שבח לאל בורא עולם להעתיק היו’ עש"ק כט’ מנחם ת"ז וירונה f. 39v
ff. 37r-39v
Title: Text on mathematics

On multiplication, division and extraction of roots; perhaps by Avraham Ibn Ezra.

Incipit: אחרי ראותי זונתך הנרצת וטוב טעם רצונך היותך בוחר ...

References

Levy, Tony, “Abraham ibn Ezra et les mathématiques; remarques bibliographiques et historiques,” in Abraham Ibn Ezra--savant universel, Conférences données au colloque de l'Institutum Iudaicum. Namur, 25 novembre 1999, ed. P. J. Tomson, Brussels, 2000, pp. 60-75.
Sela, Shlomo, Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science, Leiden, Brill, 2003

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: agnus dei(?) in a four-lobed circle (e.g. ff. 18-19) with countermark: letters O and D with a shamrock in between (e.g. ff. 9, 11); A and A with a shamrock in between (e.g. ff. 30-31).
Extent: 39 folios (i+39+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 144 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135/141 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

F. 36v is blank.

Collation

10 quires: i-x4.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Wider outer margins.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Parchment binding. In flap case.

M. Gaster's label on the spine: '1052 סוד המספר עזרא'.

History

Origin: 1647 Italy (Verona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1052; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 October 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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