University of Pennsylvania, LJS 229
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS104
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 229
- Title:
- Commentaries on Aristotle and Porphyry
- Place:
- Provence or Spain
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 119 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (144 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 145 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 119; 118(-1) 2-712 88 912 108(-1), 3 detached leaves; modern foliation in pencil, [1-118], upper left recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 27-28 long lines.
Script: Written in Sephardic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Small diagram in ink in lower margin (f. 75r).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14355 (various locations in Provence, 1446-1480).
Binding: Remnants of contemporary or near-contemporary (late 15th or early 16th century) calf over pasteboards, blind-stamped; sewing guards of parchment fragments from leaves of a mid-13th-century glossed French manuscript; upper cover detached, spine lacking, fragile.
Origin: Written in Provence or northern Spain in the second half of the 15th century.
Early Latin ownership inscription: Iste liber est meus mestre Benustruc[?] Avidor (f. 117v).
Purchased in 1974 for the Comites Latentes collection, formed by Sion Segre Amar (ms. 129, label outside lower cover?); placed on deposit at the National Library, Jerusalem.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 88, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959415183503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zk55n01/manifest
- Holding Institution:
