Hai Ben Sherira, Gaʾon (939-1038)
This miscellany, compiled in 15th century Ashkenaz, is a handbook chiefly composed of a plethora of texts on astronomy, astrology, prognoses, popular medicine and medical-astrology, related to illnesses and bloodletting, to which are appended other texts on a variety of subjects: calendrical tables and treatises, ethical and liturgical poems, 13th century halakhic and scholastic philosophical material translated into Hebrew. Furthermore, a small but significant discovery in the manuscript helps to pinpoint the city of Cologne or its surroundings, as a possible location for the production this miscellany.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Hai Ben Sherira, Gaʾon (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Crispin Isaac (Author) | Donolo, Shabtai ben Avraham (Author) | Hai Ben Sherira, Gaʾon (Author) | Meʾir ben Barukh, Rothenburg (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Yehûdā Ben-Dāniyyêl, Rômanô (Translator) | Yehudah, ha-Leṿi (Author) 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
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- 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 manuscript is divided into two separate textual units, which were both written by two different scribes in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries. Ms. Heid. 192A is a small booklet, copied by one hand in 1642 and 1687, which consists of a collection of customs and anecdotes on Rabbi Isaac B. Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Arizal, 1534-1572) and his entourage, as well as a mystical protective prayer to be recited in the morning and evening, followed by portions of biblical readings for the days of the week, and ending with a selection of penitential prayers (Seliḥot). Ms. Heid. 192B is a miscellaneous collection of biblical midrashim, prognostication literature, tales, Alphabeta de Ben Sira, Talmudic Aggadot.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
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- Hai Ben Sherira, Gaʾon (Author) | Heidenheim, Moritz (Former possessor) | Luria, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh (Author) | Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Commentator) | Shimshon ben Tsadoḳ (Author) Found in: Standard description