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Or 11795

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Or 11795
Title:
Shesh kenafayim by Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
30 folios (i+30+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, of Tarascon, fl 14th century
Colbert, Jacques Nicholas, Archbishop of Carthage, Archbishop of Rouen,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36909612
Colbert, Jacques Nicholas, Archbishop of Carthage, Archbishop of Rouen,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36909612
Daniel ben Abraham
Elḥanan ben Joseph ha-Rofe
Joseph ben Isaac
Moses ben Joseph
Pradel, Charles de, Bishop of Montpellier, 1644-1696
Pradel, Charles de, Bishop of Montpellier, 1644-1696
Traetto
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11795

Shesh kenafayim by Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils

Contents

Astronomical treatise with tables.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-30r
Author: Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, active 14th century עמנואל בן יעקב
Title: Shesh kenafayim
Title: שש כנפים

The title relates to the Isaiah's vision of the seraphim (Isaiah 6:2).

Ff. 2r-4v: the treatise, in six chapters.

Ff. 5r-26v: tables are giving the conjunctions and appositions of the planets, lunar and solar eclipses, and dates of the new moon.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 30 folios (i+30+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 141 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 27r is blank.

Collation

3 quires: i-ii10 (ff. 1-10, 11-20), iii12-2 (ff. 21-30). The quires are on guards.

Condition

The verso of f. 30 is stuck to a paper leaf.

Usage stains, worm damage.

The lower margin of numerous leaves has been cut off.

Layout

Columns:2

Ff. 2r-4v: text in two columns; from f. 5r: tables.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 15th century; in black and red ink.

Decoration

Zodiac signs in medallions, in ink with in red background (ff. 5v-11r); Zodiac signs in medallion, in ink (ff. 11v-17v and ff. 19v-25r).

Full-page illustration of the zodiac wheel on f. 27v, and how the zodiac signs correspond the Christian months. The sign 'ḳeshet' is labelled as 'Sagetariu[s]'.

Additions:

F. 29v: Decorated initial word שש - might have been planned to be at the beginning of the codex?; doodles of Zodiac signs added by a later hand.

F. 28r: Latin equivalent of the Hebrew names of the Zodiac signs labelled: המזלות בלשון נוצרי ושבעת כוכבי...

Binding

BM in-house. The original binding must have been similar to that of London BL Or 11792 and Or 11793 (both from Jacques Nicolas Colbert's library).

Title on spine: 'Shēsh Kenaphayim. Immanuel ben Jacob. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 11,795.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note on f. 30r written by Daniel ben Abraham who sold the manuscript to Joseph ben Isaac of Traetto (today Minturno): מודה אני דניאל יזי"י בכמ' אברהם ישראל מקשטרו כמו שמכרתי אלו השש כנפים לעמנאל לכמר' יוסף בכר' יצחק מטראיטו ישרו' מכירה שרירה חלוטה קיימא ועלי לפצותו מכל טענה וערער ומחלתי לנדמי אונאה ... וחתמתי שמי פה שריר וקים - דניאל בכמ' אברהם ... ישרו בכר' שתבי ז"ל .

Crossed out purchase note on f. 30r written by Moses ben Joseph, who bought the manuscript from Elḥanan ben Joseph ha-Rofe of Traetto: היום יום ד' ... קניתי אני משה ב"כ יוסף ... אילן השש כנפים הר' אלחן בכ"ר יוסף הרופא מטרייטו

In the upper margin of f. 2r, an old catalogue number(?): '3729'.

Ownership inscription on f. 1r with the name erasured: 'hich(?) liber este mey ...'

Very faded Hebrew inscription on f. 1r.

Once belonged to the libary of Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen (1655-1707): a fragment from the original binding is stuck onto the back pastedown with the archbishop's coat.

Once it belonged to the library of Charles de Pradel (1644?-1696), Bishop of Montpellier: a fragment from the flyleaf of the old binding(?) stuck onto back flyleaf (i)v: 'ex libris Biblioteca D. D. Caroli de Pradél epipi Montspe'.

; date of accession 31 July 1946.

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_11795 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tahan, Ilana, 'Matters of Provenance: Hebrew Manuscripts Owned by a Distinguished French Archbishop', in Jewish Manuscript Cultures: New Perspectives, ed. Irina Wandrey; Studies in Manuscript Cultures 13 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 243-274.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL