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[Bet Elohim. Shaʻar ha-shamayim]

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Title: [Bet Elohim. Shaʻar ha-shamayim]
Name: Almosnino, Moses ben Baruch, approximately 1515-approximately 1580, Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, 1384- (translator), Afia, Aharon (translator), Luzio, Chaim (scribe)
Date: 1551
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Translations (documents), Manuscripts, Hebrew, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Commentary on Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor's Hebrew translation of Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi, followed by a commentary on a Hebrew translation, possibly by Almosnino himself, of Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum, with the assistance of Aharon Afia. This copy was made 5 years after the works were composed in 1546 (f. 168r). Almosnino's commentary on Sacro Bosco includes the earliest reference in Jewish literature to Amerigo Vespucci and America (f. 23v), among discussion of other geographical discoveries.
Extent: 162 leaves : paper ; 268 x 177 (198-208 x 122-135) mm bound to 276 x 195 mm
Language: Hebrew
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Table of contents: 1. f.7r-76r: [Bet Elohim], Table of contents: 2. f.77r-168r: [Shaʻar ha-shamayim], Foliation: Paper, vi (later paper) + 162 + i (later paper); 7-168, early foliation in ink, upper left recto., Layout: Written in 40 long lines; commentary set in text in half-width columns., Script: Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r)., Decoration: 9 diagrams in color (f. 31v, 77v, 82v, 88r, 102v, 105v, 116r, 119r, 126v) and numerous diagrams in black ink, set in text; 4 tables (f. 44r, 47r, 48v, 54v) in black ink, Binding: Early (16th-century?) Greek blind-stamped goatskin over pasteboards; leaves from 19th-century Parisian publications pasted inside covers., Origin: Written in Thessalonikē (Salonika), Greece, 1551 (f. 76r, 168r)., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Hebrew.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gf0mx1v, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs42.html
Subject: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230. Sphaera mundi, Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum, Astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Jewish astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Planetary theory -- Early works to 1800, Planetary theory, Jewish astronomy
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 42
Provenance: Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi (colophons, f. 76r, 168r)., Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902 (inscription, flyleaf)., Sold at auction at Sotheby's (Jerusalem), 24 May 1987, lot 52., Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1991, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015., Ashkenazi, Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz, former owner., Kuzi, Yitzhak Nahum, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9957977613503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gf0mx1v/manifest

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