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Metadata

DS ID:

DS709

Shelfmark:

LJS 472

Title:

Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim

Ḥeshbon mahalkhot ha-kokhavim

Author:

Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, approximately 1065-approximately 1136

Abraham bar Hiyya WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain?

Spain TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 98 leaves : paper ; 197 x 135 (161 x 85) mm, not including folded note tabs, bound to 205 x 147 mm

Former Owner(s):

Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865

Samuel David Luzzatto WIKIDATA

Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900

Solomon Joachim Halberstam WIKIDATA

Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England)

Judith Lady Montefiore College WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern) + 2 (modern) + 94 + i (modern); [i-ii, 1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
Script: Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script, with marginal notes in later hands.
Binding: Modern paper over boards.
Origin: Possibly written in Spain, in the 15th century.
Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 110.
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 422 (label inside lower cover, Montefiore MS. 422).
Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 307, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

treatises

annotations

Jewish astronomy

Early works

Astronomy, Medieval

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958607923503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cr5nd04/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania