A Rediscovered Autograph Manuscript by Mordekay Finzi

摘要: An autograph Hebrew manuscript written by the Italian scholar Mordekay ben Avraham Finzi (Bologna, early fifteenth century-Mantua 1475), long regarded as lost, is described. A short note on this codex was published at end of nineteenth century; then bought orientalist Leone Caetani and donated to Accademia dei Lincei in Rome (where it presently MS Or. 259). For unknown reasons, not listed general inventory oriental manuscripts, 1926. The contains versions of: Euclid's Elements , Books I-VII; Ibn Ezra's Book Astrolabe ; al-Ṣaffār's Illustration Scholar Ptolemy al-Zarqāllu's Epistle Construction Plate Called ṣafīḥah; Qusṭā Lūqā's Celestial Globe several anonymous or pseudonymous texts about construction astrolabes, spheres, sundials, quadrants.