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Title

Facsimile of LJS 494, Marʼeh ha-ofanim ... etc.

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

6-13-2015

Files

Comments

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).

Keywords

Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Jewish philosophy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Diagrams, Treatises, Manuscripts Hebrew--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5963091

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs494.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 494, Marʼeh ha-ofanim ... etc." (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 20.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/20