Extent: 119 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (144 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 145 mm
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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.
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