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Or 10725
Title:
Scientific miscellany
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
175 folios (ii+175+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Ladino
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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Names:
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, of Tarascon, fl 14th century
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Geber
Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machi, 1236?-1304?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000445900862,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79269165,
Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machi, 1236?-1304?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000445900862,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79269165,
Jābir Ibn Aflah Al-Ishbīlī, 1100?-1150?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000006940467,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/20109203
Juan Gil, active 14th century
Levi ben Gershom, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician and physician, 1288-1344
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef, 13th century-14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000045747336,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21765128
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef, 13th century-14th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000045747336,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21765128
חואן גיל
מזאושין מולמסאה(?)
Ḥayim of Briviesca
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10725

Scientific miscellany

Contents

A collection of astronomical and astrological works.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino

Physical Description

Composite caper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 175 folios (ii+175+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 147 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

16 quires: i-ii14 (ff. 1-14, 15-28), iii-iv8 (ff. 29-36, 37-44), v2 (ff. 45-46), vi6 (ff. 47-52), vii16 (ff. 53-69), viii2 (ff. 70-71), ix12 (ff. 72-83), x-xi8 (ff. 84-91, 92-99), xii-xiii14 (ff. 100-113, 114-127), xiv-xv16 (ff. 128-144, 145-160), xvi16-1 (ff. 161-175).

Additions:

F. 89v: partially unpointed note in Arabic script.

Binding

Red leather binding; blind-tooled. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '755 לוחות התכונה רלבג - ס' התכונה (ערבי) מחמד גבאר ן' אפלח'.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions on f. 120r: הצעיר והקטן יהודה הכהן יצ"ו הכותב אברהם עכאדו יצ"ו.

Record of puchase on f. 120r: להיות שהספר הזה הוא ספר נחמד מלא חכמה וכלל יופי קניתי אותו מאת ח' פלך ברביע והוא ... הרבה - מי יתן לי חכם או מלמד שיבין זה הספר וימלא חסרוני ממני ומן השם אשאל שיהיה בעזרי להכות ולהבין ספרי - הצעיר יצחק....

Ownership inscription by Moses Gaster on ff. 91v and 92r.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 755; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 December 1929.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-14v
Author: לוי בן גרשום Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344
Title: קצור לוחות לוי בן גרשם (מבוא)
Title: Ḳitsur luḥot Leṿi ben Gershom (mavo)

Contains only the explanations of the luḥot; the luḥot themselves are on ff. 29r-35v.

Incomplete at the end; up to the middle of the Chapter 2.

Ff. 11r-11v: "זה חסר מההקדמה לאלול הלוחות.

Notes on the canons of Levi ben Gershom's tables by Ḥayim of Briviesca on ff. 12r-14v: ביאור לר’ חיים מברבישקה ז"ל על זה ...שאנו בה שהיא שנת הקמ"ט ליצירה.

With marginal notes.

Colophon:

References

Goldstein, B.R., The Astronomical Tables of Levi ben Gerson (New Haven 1974), p. 77.
‫ חלק מהמבוא פורסם מכ"י זה ע"י מ’ שטיינשניידר, ממזרח וממערב, ד (1899), עמ’ 40-43. ‬
Chabás, José and Bernard R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000), p. 50.
ff. 15r-28v
Author: עמנואל בן יעקב Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, active 14th century
Title: שש כנפים
Title: Shesh kenafim

Only the luḥot.

Leaves are bound incorrectly; correct order: ff. 15-18, 24, lacuna, 23, lacuna, 21-22, lacuna, 20, lacuna, 19, 25-28.

Running title and Hebrew folio numbers are added by a different hand.

Colophon:
ff. 29r-36v
Author: לוי בן גרשום Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344
Title: קצור לוחות לוי בן גרשם
Title: Ḳitsur luḥot Leṿi ben Gershom
Incipit: העגולה הרביעית

Cf. London BL, Add MS 26921, ff. 12r-45r.

Colophon:

References

Mancha, José Luis, Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics (Aldershot: Ashgate,2006), p. 271 n.8.
ff. 37r-39v
Author: ישראלי, יצחק בן יוסף Israeli, Isaac ben Joseph, active 14th century
Title: לוחות הי"ב בתים
Title: Luḥot ha-12 batim
Incipit: לוחות י"ב בתים לחכם ר' יצחק ישראל...

Colophon:
ff. 40r-40v
Author: חואן גיל Juan Gil, active 14th century
Title: לוחות מחנות הלבנה
Title: Luḥot maḥanot ha-levanah
Incipit: לוח מחנות הלבנה במזלות לפי דעה(?) גואן גיל

Tables of the mansions of the Moon.

Colophon:
ff. 41r-53v
Title: חבורים באסטרולוגיה
Title: Ḥiburim be-asṭrologiyah

Colophon:
ff. 54r-83v
Author: יעקב בן מכיר Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir, approximately 1236-
Title: לוחות התכונה
Title: Luḥot ha-tekhunah
Incipit: אלמנך מר' יעקב ן' תבון הנק' מאיש פורפסייו(?) לפי גלגל התשיעי

Ff. 54r-82v: tables, f. 83r-83v: באור זאת האלמנך.

Colophon:
ff. 84r-91v
Author: מזאושין מולמסאה(?)
Title: טרקטאץ
Title: Ṭraḳṭats

F. 84r: טרקט[ץ?] ... אלהיליג אי[?] שיאו הפך ומתנות[?] החיים שחבר מ’ מזאושין[?] בולמסאה[?] נ"ע

Incomplete at the beginning: the text is missing up to the middle of Chapter 1.

Up to f. 86v: in Ladino, the rest is in Hebrew.

Ff. 90r-91v: luḥot.

Among others mentions Ptolemy (f. 88v).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 91 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 147 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 15-28: parallel Hebrew foliation in ink (f. 15 = f. א), which suggests that the leaves are not bound in order.

Collation

Quires i-x.

Condition

Collation is falling apart.

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and cursive script of the 15th century. Ff. 29-39: brown and red ink.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 1r: scribbles.

F. 89v: partially unpointed note in Arabic script.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 755; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 December 1929.

II

Contents

ff. 92r-175v
Author: ג’אבר בן אפלח Gabir ben Aflaḥ, ca. 1100-1160
Title: כתאב אלהיה (ב-ח)
Title: Kitāb al-Haythah (2-9)

Gabir ben Aflaḥ, also called Geber, Spanish-Arab astronomer of Seville.

Not complete, from Section 2 to the middle of Section 9.

Colophon:

References

Steinschneider, Moritz, Die Hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (Berlin, 1893), p. 543, § 337.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 84 folios (ff. 92-175)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

Quires xi-xvi.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains.earlier repairs covering the text (f. 101v).

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 89v: partially unpointed note in Arabic script.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 755; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 December 1929.

Additional Information

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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