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Title

  • Shesh Kenafayim

Created / Published

  • [1513 or 1514].

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Executed in: Governolo.
  • -  Italian semi-cursive script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  Censors: Domenico Irosolomi[ta]no (f. 27v); Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto, 1618. Old no. Hebr. 4. Accession mark 266992/20. Deinard 1914. MMW.
  • -  Shesh Kenafayim (Six Wings) or Kanfei Nesharim, as the title reads in this manuscript, by Immanuel b. Jacob Bonfils. The text is on ff. 2r-4r and the astronomical tables on ff. 4v-25v. On f. 26r-v the scribe, Menahem b. Peretz Trabot, writing in 5274=1513/14, explained that he expanded the tables in the first "wing" to cycle 280 with the approval of the sons of Isaac Gallico of Governolo והנה אנחנו עתה בשנת רע"ד לאלף הששי מבריאת העולם על כן אני מנחם הצעיר בכמה"ר רבינו פרץ טרבוט זלה"ה... אשר הגלה מירושלם וילך צרפתה... והוספתי בהסכמת ובויכוח הנכבדים אלופי רעי ומיודעי היושבי' פה גובירנו בני כמ"ר יצחק גאליקו ז"ל שני מחזורים. On f. 28v (damaged): further instructions. On f. 25v Trabot added a colophon signed with his initials אשתחוה אפים... לרוכב שמים אשר זכה ידי להרים מלאכת סבירים... כנפי נשרים. מט"י יפר"ח חזק. LC Hebr. Ms 158 was also copied by Trabot. On f. 1r-v: jottings.

Medium

  • 28 ff. Paper. ; 21.6 x 15.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 28
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/29

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757646

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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