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Detailed record for Oriental 11796
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| Title |
Series of calendrial and astronomical tables |
| Origin |
France, S. or Spain |
| Date |
15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square, semi-cursive and cursive script, unpunctuated |
| Decoration |
Numerous charts with penwork decoration sometimes inhabited by human figures, baboons, hybrids, in red and mauve ink. Chart in colours and gold (f. 57v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
250 x 185 |
| Official foliation |
ff. 93 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 older and 1 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
Each folio is on a separate guard, original collation cannot be reconstructed. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Joannes Plantavitius de la Pause (Pausanus), bishop of Lodeve (b. 1625, d. 1648): he bought it in Rome on 24 November, 1620: inscription (f. 2).
Jacques Nicolas Colbert (b. 1655, d. 1707), archbishop of Rouen: his coat of arms, remains of a previous binding (stamped on the inner back cover).
Acquired by gift from the Inter-Allied Book Centre, April 1946. |
| Notes |
Watermark, f. [94], of a coat of arms: a crowned shield with a B in the middle and a motto (illegible) in a banderole beneath, similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 8079 (dated 1580 to Troyes).
Hair and flesh side are distinguishable. Pricking and ruling are visible. |
| Select bibliography |
'Recent Acquisitions of Hebrew Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly, 16 (1951/52), 95-96 (p. 96).
Illumination: Hebrew Treasures from the Vatican and Major British Collections (London: Jewish Museum, 2010), no. 3, p. 20 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 2
Decorated chart |
f. 36
Decorated chart |
f. 41v
Decorated chart |
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f. 57v
Decorated chart |
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