Penn Library's LJS 498 - [Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)
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Astronomy.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Jewish astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.
Astrolabes.
Geography, Medieval.
Jewish astronomy.
Codices.
Annotations.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 498, a collection of astronomical texts in Hebrew from source texts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Subjects include geography, the Ptolemaic model of the universe, solar and lunar eclipses, and the astrolabe. Frequent marginal notes and glosses, some from copied from known commentaries to these works.
Possibly written in Gratz, in the second half of the 16th century, after the first edition of Erasmus Reinhold's Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Purbacchii Germani in 1542, some of which is copied alongside the Hebrew translation of Peurbach (f. 188r-196v), on paper with watermarks similar to those on paper produced in Gratz in the 1580s and 1590s (Les Enluminures).