Astronomical Illustration
Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor
Artist Unknown
16th Century
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This diagram of the cosmos is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a translation of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s thirteenth-century Latin text De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World), considered the standard textbook on astronomy until the mid-seventeenth century. This manuscript was written in Mantua, Italy.
Credits
The British Library, London, England. Or. 10661. From the collection of The British Library, The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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