Details

Subjects:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
Arithmetic.
Business mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Business mathematics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Hebrew.

Summary:

Mathematical work on basic calculations, including business or commercial arithmetic.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (modern) + i (early) + 58 + i (modern); 1¹²(-1) 2-4¹²; [1-58], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 17 long lines.
Script: Written in semi-cursive Hebrew script in a single hand, except for one leaf in another hand (f. 11).
Binding: 17th-century Italian gilt-tooled calf, rebacked, with ribbon marker.
Origin: Written in Spain in the 15th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Solomon Hirschel, first Chief Rabbi of London.
Formerly held in the library of Jews' College (London; stamp, early flyleaf), no. 137 (inscription).
Formerly held in the library of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Ashkenazi rabbinical court, London), no. 133 (spine).
Sold at auction at Christie, Manson & Woods as part of the collection of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah, 23 Jun. 1999, lot 100, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 39 (LJS 312).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 312.

Contributor:

Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842, former owner.
Jews' College (London, England), former owner.
Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain), former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

773214886

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page