[ʻIr siḥon]

Contributor:

Jews' College (London, England) (former owner); Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain) (former owner)

Name:

Sarfati, Joseph ben Moses, active approximately 1400-1450

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900

Date:

1400

Description:

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

Language:

Hebrew

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.; Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842, former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs312.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000258

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Hebrew; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

58 leaves : paper; 133 x 99 (101 x 65) mm bound to 137 x 116 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Hebrew.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 312

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)