Yesod ʻolam (DS713) (Q3867)

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Yesod ʻolam (DS713)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9958580733503681, LJS 476, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958580733503681)

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    27 August 2023
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    Jewish astronomy--Early works to 1800
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    Early works to 1800
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    Astronomy--Early works to 1800
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    Extent: 70 leaves : parchment and paper, illustrations ; 198 x 136 (140 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 146 mm
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    parchment and paper, illustrations
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    Ms. codex.
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Collation: Parchment and paper, i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper); 118 2-320 420(-8); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left and upper center recto. Gatherings have outermost and central bifolia of parchment with paper bifolia in between.
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    Layout: Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.
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    Script: Written in Sephardic Hebrew script.
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    Decoration: 37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams.
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    Binding: Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps.
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    Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, ca. 1460.
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    Formerly owned by Moritz Dessauer, founding rabbi of the synagogue in Meiningen; inscription, Geschenk des Landrabbiners Dr. M. Dessauer in Meiningen, recording gift by Dessauer to unknown recipient (inside lower cover).
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    Formerly in the library of Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (the Rabbincal Seminary of Budapest), K. 209.
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    Offered for sale by Jörn Gunther Antiquariat (Basel, Switzerland), Brochure 8 (2004), item 17.
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    Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Fall 2005.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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    Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
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    28 April 2025
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