The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
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.
Support: paper; Extent: 162 leaves : 268 x 177 (198-208 x 122-135) mm. bound to 276 x 195 mm; Foliation: Paper, vi (later paper) + 162 + i (later paper); 7-168, early foliation in ink, upper left recto.
Written in 40 long lines; commentary set in text in half-width columns.
Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r).
9 diagrams in color (f. 31v, 77v, 82v, 88r, 102v, 105v, 116r, 119r, 126v) and numerous diagrams in black ink, set in text; 4 tables (f. 44r, 47r, 48v, 54v) in black ink
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Thessalonikē
Written in Thessalonikē (Salonika), Greece, 1551 (f. 76r, 168r).
Early (16th-century?) Greek blind-stamped goatskin over pasteboards; leaves from 19th-century Parisian publications pasted inside covers.
Hebrew
Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi (colophons, f. 76r, 168r).
Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902 (inscription, flyleaf).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (Jerusalem), 24 May 1987, lot 52.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1991, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Thessalonikē
Written in Thessalonikē (Salonika), Greece, 1551 (f. 76r, 168r).
Hebrew
Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi
Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902
Sold at auction at Sotheby's
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1991, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r).
9 diagrams in color (f. 31v, 77v, 82v, 88r, 102v, 105v, 116r, 119r, 126v) and numerous diagrams in black ink, set in text; 4 tables (f. 44r, 47r, 48v, 54v) in black ink
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Clear All
