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Title

Facsimile of LJS 42, Bet Elohim

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-24-2015

Files

Comments

Commentary on Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor's Hebrew translation of Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi, followed by a commentary on a Hebrew translation, possibly by Almosnino himself, of Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum, with the assistance of Aharon Afia. This copy was made 5 years after the works were composed in 1546 (f. 168r). Almosnino's commentary on Sacro Bosco includes the earliest reference in Jewish literature to Amerigo Vespucci and America (f. 23v), among discussion of other geographical discoveries.

Keywords

Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Astronomy Medieval, Jewish astronomy--Early works to 1800, Planetary theory--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Translations (documents), Manuscripts Hebrew--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797761

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs42.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 42, Bet Elohim" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 83.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/83