MS. Pococke 368

At the beginning and end of the tables are astronomical notes (by a later hand in Oriental cursive script) signed דעת ר´ יאודה, דעת ר´א´ם´ ן´ בסן (?) and R. Yitsḥaḳ אלחדב, there occurs the date of 5265 (1505). On fol. 56r the name of the first scribe, Abraham is marked. He copied fols. 1v-94r.

Contains among others extracts on humours and the climate (fol. 194v), commentary on the astrolabe (fol. 196v), the views of רא"ם and Judah b. בסה on the date of the seasons in 1334 (fol. 198v), commentary on the first part of ʻImanuʼel ben Yaaḳov's Six wings(שש כנפים) (fol. 199v), calendars על דעת אוליבג and for Constantinople (fol. 202r). The years 5258 [= 1498 ] and 5269 [=1508/9] are mentioned. The author of some of the extracts, possibly Isaac ben Elijah Kohen mentions his commentary on Euclid.

Second paragraph begins: "אמר יצחק ... ראיתי רבים ועצומי’ חקרו ודרשו לעשות דרך קצרה במולדות"

At the end a note by Shabtai ben Ovadyah (the scribe?) on the use of calendars.

Many of these tables are also found in Paris BnF MS. hèbr. 1085, ff. 85v-. Contains some calendrical tables which cannot be found in Paris BnF MS. hèbr. 1085 and one of them says that it was written for Lisbon (לישבונה) (fol. 232r)