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Title

Facsimile of LJS 251, Ars artium

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-14-2015

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Comments

17th-century copy of a 16th-century treatise (1564, p. 6; 1569, p. 121) on cabalistic gematria (the mystical interpretation of language), in which strings of letters, in this case Latin sentences, are assigned a numerical value. Begins with a dedication to Maurice Hassia, Landgraf of Katsenelnbogen, Dietz, Zitgen-Hain, and Nidda, and a preface in which Schopper cites Christian Renaissance scholar Pico della Mirandola as his primary source for the Hebrew tradition of cabala. The mathematical notation used in the manuscript suggests that the text was copied and updated between 1655 and 1699.

Keywords

Cabala--Early works to 1800, Gematria--Early works to 1800, Mathematics--Early works to 1800, Algebra--Early works to 1800 Codices, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Treatises, Manuscripts Latin--17th century, Manuscripts European

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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4856519

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http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs251.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 251, Ars artium" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 165.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/165