Penn Library's LJS 498 - [Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

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Penn Library's LJS 498 - [Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

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Interdisciplinary Centers, Units and Projects::Penn Libraries::The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts::Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS)::Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): Videos

Discipline

Astrophysics and Astronomy

Subject

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
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.

Format

mp4

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright date

2024

Abstract

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).

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