Penn Library's LJS 494 - [Marʼeh ha-ofanim] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

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Penn Library's LJS 494 - [Marʼeh ha-ofanim] ... [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

Arts and Humanities
Jewish Studies
Astrophysics and Astronomy

Subject

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmography.
Jewish philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Jewish philosophy.
Codices.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Hebrew.

Format

mp4

License

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

Copyright date

2024

Abstract

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 494, a 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).

Written in northern Italy in the second quarter of the 15th century (based on watermark information).

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959630913503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs494

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