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MS. Laud Or. 310

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Mishpaṭe ha-Kokhavim (4-8)

ff. 1-247
Ibn Rigal, Aliאבן רג’אל, עלי, Mishpaṭe ha-Kokhavim (4-8) משפטי הכוכבים (ד-ח)

Astrological treatise written by Yosef ben R. Gedaliah Franḳo. The same scribe copied BnF MS hébr. 215 in 1398 in Portugal.

Colophon: "תם ונשלם ... על יד יוסף בר גדליה פרנקו ש"צ יום חמישי ארבעה ימים לחדש מרחשון שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה ושבעים ושתים שנים ליצירה" (fol. 182v); "על יד יוסף בר’ גדליה פרנקו ש"צ יום ששי שני ימים מראש חדש אלול שנת ע"א[!] לפרט" (fol. 241v)

Marginal notes sometimes folded.

Language(s): Judeo-Portuguese.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper, watermark on flyleaf to be indentified.
Extent: ff.247
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 200 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals. Pastedowns are leaves from Latin manuscript(s).

Collation

No signatures, catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Binding is cracked.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Archbisop Laud in the middle; holes for straps.

History

Origin: [Portugal?]; 1411

Provenance and Acquisition

Owner's inscriptions: "Joannes Dee 1562 January ... Louanii emit"; "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuari[i] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1633"(fol.1r)

Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2031, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2031, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 19316

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2031.
    González Llubera, Ignacio, Romance Philology, VI (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952), 267-271
    Moreira de Sá, Artur, "A próxima edição de três traduções portuguesas inéditas do século XV", Boletim Internacional de Bibliografia Luso-Brasileira 1 (1960): 569-579
    Hilty, Gerold, "Das achte Buch des 'Libro conplido'. Spanische Grundlage und portugiesische Übersetzung", in: ed. Dieter Kremer, Homenagem a Joseph M. Piel por ocasiâo do seu 85° aniversário, (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1988), 251-270
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 2031.
    Levi, Joseph Abraham, "Afonso X, o Sábio, as ciências "islâmicas," o papel de Afonso X na difusão dessas ciências e o 'Liuro conplido en o[s] juizos das estrelas.' Possíveis conexões entre o 'Livro conplido en los iudizios de las estrellas' e uma versão portuguesa do século XV escrita em caracteres hebraicos, o Bodleian Library MS. Laud Or. 310." Torre de Papel 4 (1995): 119-191.
    Strolovitch, Devon L., Old Portuguese in Hebrew Script: Convention, Contact, and Convivência (Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 185-327
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