Penn Library's LJS 494 - [Marʼeh ha-ofanim] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)
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Astronomy.
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmography.
Jewish philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Jewish philosophy.
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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