TY - BOOK ID - 77885624 TI - Planets, potions and parchments AU - Levy, B. Barry AU - David M. Stewart Museum AU - Jewish Public Library (Montréal, Québec) PY - 1990 SN - 1282851802 9786612851803 0773562664 9780773562660 0773507930 9780773507937 0773507914 9780773507913 PB - Montreal Buffalo DB - UniCat KW - Jewish scientists KW - Science KW - Jews KW - Hebrew imprints KW - Manuscripts, Hebrew KW - Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Jewish KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts KW - Hebrew manuscripts KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Natural science KW - Natural sciences KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Jews as scientists KW - Scientists, Jewish KW - Scientists KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Medicine KW - Book Imprints KW - Manuscripts as Topic KW - 091 <064> KW - 091 <71 MONTREAL> KW - 091 =924 KW - 091 <064> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tentoonstellingscatalogi. Museumcatalogi KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tentoonstellingscatalogi. Museumcatalogi KW - 091 =924 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws KW - 091 <71 MONTREAL> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Canada--MONTREAL KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Canada--MONTREAL KW - Bibliography KW - history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885624 AB - More than 200 rare scientific manuscripts, books, maps, amulets, and magical texts have been brought together from renowned collections in Europe, Canada, Israel, Great Britain, and the United States specifically for this exhibition. The most famous among these is a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls containing chapters 81 to 85 from the Book of Psalms: fragments from the scrolls have been in Canada on only two other occasions. The exhibition will have an Assyrian cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE that describes treatments for eye ailments, a first edition Copernicus, and several texts by Maimonides, including one with marginal notes by Martin Luther. Also featured, in a rare Latin translation, is an Arabic medical book written by a Jew, demonstrating the international and inter-faith nature of the medieval scientific endeavour. ER -