[Zeh Sefer Uklidus ha-Haham].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Euclid.

Contributor:

• Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir, approximately 1236- translator.
• Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Standardized Title:

• Elements. Hebrew

Language:

• Hebrew
• Italian

Subjects (All):

• Geometry--Early works to 1800.
• Geometry.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• Manuscripts, Hebrew.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York), 22 December 2015, lot 13.

Physical Description:

186 leaves : paper ; 310 x 225 (210 x 145) mm bound to 330 x 245 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1704]

Language Note:

Hebrew, with marginal notes in Italian on the first page (f. 3r).

Summary:

Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements, probably in the 13th-century translation of Jacob ben Machir, comprising Books 1-13 of the Elements and the apocryphal Books 14-15, often attributed to Hypsicles. Marginal notes and occasional corrections added in Hebrew (through f. 61r); marginal notes in Italian on first page (f. 3r).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper, i + 186 + i; 1² 2-47⁴; [1-186], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Front pastedown and flyleaf and back pastedown and flyleaf formed by wrapping two sheets of lighter paper around the first and last gatherings and cutting off the inner leaves to stubs (mathematical calculations are written on the leaf used for the back pastedown and stub). Gatherings signed with Hebrew letters, upper right first recto.
• Layout: Written in 28-31 long lines; ruled in drypoint between prickings at the edge of the text block.
• Script: Written in Italian semicursive Hebrew script, with initial words in square script.
• Decoration: Architectural title page in ink with calligraphic title (f. 1r); numerous small geometric diagrams added by multiple hands through Book 6 (f. 3r-61r) and occasionally pasted in (for example, f. 15r, 58r); open spaces in text for diagrams in Books 7-15.
• Binding: Contemporary (early 18th-century) quarter vellum over paper boards; paper spine label with title in ink; spine damaged.
• Origin: Written in Italy in 1704 (Sotheby's).

Local Notes:

• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.
• Purchased at Sotheby's New York 22 December 2015 auction.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1787.

OCLC:

958328244

Online:

The Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund Home Page