University of Pennsylvania, LJS 494

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS728

Shelfmark:

LJS 494

Title:

Marʼeh ha-ofanim] ... [etc.

Sphaera mundi

Author:

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230

Johannes de Sacrobosco WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 209 x 151 (143 x 104) mm bound to 220 x 186 mm

Former Owner(s):

Finzi, Mazliah

Mazliah Finzi 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) + 22 + xxxv (modern); 112 210; [1-22], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 31-34 long lines; ruled in faint ink for horizontals with vertical bounding lines in lead.
Script: Written in Ashkenazic semi-cursive script by 2 hands (f. 1r-11v, 12r-22r).
Decoration: 3 astronomical diagrams (f. 1v, 2v, 10r); occasional manicules (f. 9v, 13r).
Watermark: Briquet Tête de boeuf à yeux 14871 (Brescia, 1434-1445).
Binding: 20th-century half morocco over cloth; gatherings sewn on stubs.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second quarter of the 15th century (based on watermark information).
Possible ownership inscription: Mazliah Finzi (possibly Mazliah ben Zacharias Finzi of Parma, f. 22v).
Formerly owned by Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam (ms. 244, Montefiore label inside upper cover; number in pencil, f. 1r).
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 424 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 424; gilt number on spine; stamps, f. 1r, 22v; number in pencil, f. 1r).
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 309.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, August 2008.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

treatises

Cosmography

Astronomy

Jewish philosophy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959630913503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3s598/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania