Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (1089-1164)
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel was written by various hands; it contains primarily astrological writings, among them texts by Abraham ibn Esra, Al-Zarkali and Hermes Trismegistus translated from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. In the margin of f. 120r there is a blessing against worms, on f. 145v medical advice in a blend of German and Latin. In addition to handwritten parts, the volume also contains three prints. One of the two original leather clasps is still intact.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: De mundo vel seculo sive tractatus de planetarum coniunctionibus et annorum revolutionibus mundanorum (translatus ab Henrico Bate) (82r-90r)
Incipit: Tractatus de Aven'are de planetarum coniunctionibus et annorum revolucionibus. Mundanorum translacionem agressuri in vestibulo quidem sermonis obstupuimus [82avb] Si tu inveneris librum Albmansorio de coniunctionibus planetarum
Explicit: [90rb] iudicare poteris in reliquis domibus ad aspectus autem semper intendas. Explicit liber de mundo et seculo completus die lune post festum beati Luce hora diei quasi 10a anno domini 1281 inceptus in Leodio perfactus Machilinia translatus a magistro Heinrico Bate de hebreo in latinum
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- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: Principium sapientiae sive Liber introductorius (91r-121r)
Incipit: Cum inicium sapientie dei timor existat
Explicit: [121ra] terminatus est liber principium sapientie Nunc autem predictus Petrus Paduanus ad librorum aliorum translacionem Abrahe ordinatur Cum autem compilatus fuit iste liber erant anni a creacione Ade 4908. Nunc autem incarnacionis domini nostri Iesu Christi 1293. Sunt anni Adde 5053 et 8 menses circa.
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- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: Tractatus particulares (121r-125v)
Incipit: Liber hic 4 continet capitula. Primum de cognicione hominis Capitulum primum Debes quoque aspicere [123ra] et hec radix est magna. >Incipit tractatus de 13 manieribus planetarum<. Et manieribus 13 exponam significacionem cuiuslibet planetarum 7. [125ra] Can. autem bonum malumque minuit. >Explicit<. >Dogma universale de iudiciis<. Sciendum in questione omni 3ª esse
Explicit: [125va] quomodo quando! debes miscere iudicium planetarum signorum. Finis quorundam tractatum particularium Abrahe Hevenare quos Petrus Paduanus transtulit de gallico in latinum
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- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: De interrogationibus (latine per Petrum de Abano) (125v-130v)
Incipit: Astrologie duo existerunt capita
Explicit: [130va] sicut est numerus annorum minorum ipsorum.
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- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: Liber de rationibus (translatus per Petrum de Abano) (131r-141v)
Incipit: In nomine domini altissimi librum racionum incipiam. Volo enim nunc ponere fundamentum libro racionum de principio sapiencie.
Explicit: [141vb] et in vi magna secundum proporcionem stellarum. Amen.
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- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: De nativitatibus et revolutionibus earum (translatum per Petrum de Abano) (149v-162v)
Incipit: Inquit magister noster Habraam sapiens astutus quod omnis sapiens [160va] quoniam est domus tristitie sa. et domus gaudii mart.
Explicit: [162vb] et signum illorum et angelorum.
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- Alfonsus, Bonihominis (Translator) | Aristoteles (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Campanus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Henricus, Bate (Translator) | Hermes, Trismegistus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Johannes, de Lineriis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Maġribī, as-Samauʾal Ibn-Yaḥyā al- (Author) | Nicolaus, de Tudeschis (Author) | Petrus, de Abano (Translator) | Petrus, De Andelo (Author) | Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Ṯābit Ibn-Qurra (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Valescus, de Taranta (Author) | Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Yaḥyā az- (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Sefer ha-Yashar is one of two Bible commentaries by the great R. Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089/92-1164/67). Written in Lucca, Italy ca. 1142-45, this work attained great recognition and popularity during the Middle Ages and has been preserved in numerous manuscripts and printed books. This 15th century Italian copy is of particular interest since it belonged, at some point during the 16th century, to Theodore de Bèze (1519-1605), the famous Genevan Calvinist theologian and Professor, who then gave it to one of his disciples and colleagues, Antoine Chevalier (1507-1572), the first Professor of Hebrew language at the Académie de Genève.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: Sefer ha-Yashar by Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1089/92-1164/67) Found in: Standard description
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- Bèze, Théodore de (Former possessor) | Chevalier, Antoine Rodolphe (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Former possessor) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript consists of four texts: an anonymous treatise on arithmetic and astronomy, an anonymous commentary on the Sefer ha-Mispar by R. Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1092-1167), the treatise She'elot Tiviot (Problemata Physica) attributed to Pseudo-Aristotle, and the ethical and didactic poem Musar Haskel by R. Hai ben Sherira Gaon (ca. 939-1038). The She'elot Tiviot, translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Moïse Ibn Tibbon (died ca. 1283), are especially important since Ms. heb. 10 contains a version in four chapters. Of a total of seven known surviving manuscripts in the entire world containing the She'elot Tiviot, only three other manuscripts comprise these four chapters.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
- Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir: Commentaire anonyme sur les 7 ‘chapitres’ du (Sefer ha-Mispar), le Livre du Nombre d’Abraham Ibn Ezra (c. 1092-1167) : (ff. 39r-65r :) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Hai Ben Sherira, Gaʾon (Author) | Ḥunain, Ibn-Isḥāq (Translator) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) Found in: Standard description
This collection of cosmological treatises contains excerpts from a larger manuscript, presumably written by the same scribe Moses, which now is part of the Schoenberg Collection at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (ljs 057). The manuscript contains tables on lunar motion by Jacob ben David Jomtow (Bonjorn); three astrological works by Abraham ibn Ezra (1089 - about 1164): a fragment of Reshit Hokhman ("Beginning of Wisdom"), the larger part of Mischpetei ha-Mazzalaot ("Judgments of the Constellations") and the larger part of Sefer ha-Olam ("Book of the World"); and, as the last part the Sefer ha-Mivharim le-Batlamyus, i.e. Ptolemy's "Almagest". On f. 15r and f. 15v there are three images of constellations from classical antiquity: Orion (Ha-Gibbor ba-Te'omim, "the hero of twins") in bare feet and with a scimitar (f. 15r), Eridanus (Ha-Nahar, "river") and Lepus (Ha-Arnevet, "hare") (f. 15v). The imagery is based on the Arabic "Book of Fixed Stars", written in 964 by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
- Bonet, Jakob Ben-David Ben-Jom-Tob Poel (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Author)
This composite manuscript by three different scribes encloses two textual units which were bound together. The volume is structured by a liturgical section, according to the Ashkenazi rite and a halakhic section. The manuscript Heidenheim 145 is one of many compendia of its genre, consisting of an assortment of texts which reflect the religious and talmudo-centric orientation of the intellectual elite of medieval Franco-Germany.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
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- Avraham bar-Ḥiyya ha-Naśi (Author) | Barukh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Author) | Bĕk̲ôr Šôr, Yôsēf (Author) | El'āzar Ben-Yehûdā (Author) | Heidenheim, Moritz (Former possessor) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Meir Shaliakh Tsibbur (Author) | Menahem ben Jacob of Worms (Author) | Molin, Yaacov (Author) | Naḥshon Ben-Tsadoḳ (Author) | Rabeinu Benjamin (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yehudah, ha-Bavli (Author) | Shimʿon bar Yitsḥaḳ (Author) | Ṭôv-ʿElem, Yôsēf Ben-Šemûʾēl (Author) | Yehudah ben Ḳalonimos, mi-Shpirah (Author) | Yitsḥaḳ ben Meʾir, mi-Dura (Author) | Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Yosef, Corbeil (Author) Found in: Standard description
Illuminated biblical and ethical miscellany produced in Italy in 1322. This small format manuscript, with an exquisite 16th-century white leather binding blindstamped with the coat of arms of the city of Zurich, is divided into two groups of texts. The first section is made up of the biblical texts of the Five Megillot, accompanied by three commentaries on them, composed by the great medieval scholars, Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi), Avraham ibn Ezra and Joseph Qara. The second section is of ethical nature and consists in the Mishna tractate of the Pirqei Avot or Ethics of the Fathers and its commentaries. The first is an anonymous one ; the second is entitled Shemonah Peraqim by Maimonides, as translated by Samuel ibn Tibbon, and the third is a commentary by Rashi placed in the margins of the latter. In addition, this handbook is interspersed with aggadic, midrashic, mystical and philosophical material.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
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- Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Author) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Commentator) | Kara, Yosef (Author) | Kara, Yosef (Commentator) | Ḳimḥi, Daṿid (Author) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Commentator) Found in: Standard description