ספר האמונות והדעות
- Holding institution:
- Bodleian Libraries
- Data provider:
- Bodleian Libraries
- Title:
- ספר האמונות והדעות
- Creator:
- Author: Saʿadia ben Joseph, 882-94
- Contributor:
- Printer: Jabez, Solomon ben Isaac, d. before 1593
Translator: Tibon, Judah ibn, approximately 1120-approximately 1190 - Date:
- 1562
- Description:
- Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Saʿadia’s Book of Beliefs and Opinions is prefaced by an introduction and has ten chapters. 1. The creation of the world; 2. The unity of the Creator; 3. Revelation and the Commandments; 4. Free will: obedience and disobedience; 5. Merit and demerit; 6. The soul and death; 7. The resurrection of the dead; 8. Messianic redemption; 9. The world to come; 10. Moral conduct, thought and belief.Contents note: Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title printed within an ornamental border.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
Hebrew - Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Geographic region:
- Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (today: Turkey, Istanbul)
- Provenance:
- Former owner: Pococke, Edward, 1604-1691Edward Pococke (1604-1691) (marginal annotations?).
- Medium:
- Paper
- Extent:
- ff. 88.
- Rights:
- Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Terms of use: http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html
- Identifier:
- "Steinschneider
M. Catalogus librorum hebraeourm in Bibliotheca Bodleiana
6855 (2); Ya'ari
Avraham. ha-Defus ha-'Ivri be-Kushta
164; Abramsky
VII 186; V 224; Vinograd
Constantinople
222; Hebrew Bibliography
000154606."
Alma Identifier: 990215849210107026
Christ Church MD.7.18(2) - Is part of:
- Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books