Facsimile of LJS 494, Marʼeh ha-ofanim ... etc.

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Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Cosmography--Early works to 1800
Jewish philosophy--Early works to 1800 Codices
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Manuscripts Hebrew--15th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
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2015-06-13
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Hebrew translation of a fundamental treatise on medieval astronomy and cosmology that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth divided into climactic zones at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe. Followed by Ruaḥ ha-ḥen, a 13th-century philosophical work that was a popular introduction to science, here attributed to Yehudah ibn Tibon. It has also been attributed to Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli and Zeraḥyah ha-Yeṿani. Occasional marginal notes. Final page contains Hebrew notes and pen trials by various hands (f. 22v).
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