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Or 10666
- Record Id:
- 032-003392685
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- Or 10666
- Title:
- Calendar tables and astronomical calculations
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 26 folios (ii+26+ii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10666 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1675
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1675-1699
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10666
Calendar tables and astronomical calculations
Contents
Calendar tables and astronomical calculations.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 3r-23rTitle: לוחות אסטרונומיים, מולדות ועברונותTitle: Luḥot asṭronomiyim, moladot ṿe-ʻevronotF. 10r gives the date: 'this year of our is the year 5447', that is, 1686/7: בשנתינו זאת ש’ התמ"ז ליצירה, etc. With later supplements, among which is the year "1788 of the christians" (19a).
F. 4r: later addition from the year 5459 (1698/9); see lines 1-2: בשנתינו זאת ש’ התנט ליצירה .
F. 18r: לוח לדעת ההפרש ממקום למקום באורך ורוחב; at the bottom of this list of places, Saloniki is added in cursive script.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 23), three stars (e.g. f. 15).Extent: 26 folios (ii+26+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 155 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink starting on f. 3r.
Ff. 9v, 12v, 17v, 24v, 25r and 25v are blank.
Collation
Indeterminable.
Condition
Usage stains.
Layout
Columns:1
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century; red and black ink.
Decoration
Additions:Notes and calculations in Hebrew on ff. 1r, 2r and 2v.
Notes, calculations on front pastedown.
F. 26r: calculation for the year 5514 (1753/4).
Binding
Post-1600, leather binding. In flap case.
M. Gaster's label on spine: '417 לוחות'.
Accompanying Material
A smaller paper slip - probably a leaf from another manuscript - is sewn onto f. 24r: כדי לידע בניסן השמש במזלות
History
Origin: 1675-1699 Late 17th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Calligraphic signatures by the same person Yosef ben Rafaʾel Śaśon- ownership inscriptions (?) - on f. 1r and on front flyleaf (i)r: הצעיר יוספ בן רפאל ששון. See the same signature in Meir Benayahu Jerusalem Israel MS. H 176.
Purchase note on f. 1r: קניתי זה הלוחות מאת ח' חביב בר... בעשרה גרוש הצעיר יוספ ששון
M. Gaster's note on front flyleaf (ii)v: 'Vienna 13.VIII.902/62'.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 417; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 March 1928.
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).Availability
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