University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 491
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25662
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 491
- Title:
- Perush sefer ha-yesodot shel Uklids
- Place:
- Italy?
- Date:
- between 1650 and 1750?
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 40 leaves : paper ; 305 x 208 (205 x 135-140) mm bound to 315 x 220 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by Yacov Fuchs (National Library of Israel).
Collation: Paper, i + 40 + i; 12 210 3-66 76(-2); [i-ii], 1-12, 17-38, contemporary foliation in ink using Hebrew characters, upper left recto; 1, 40, 2-39, modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script, with headings in square script.
Decoration: Space left blank for diagrams (f. 34r, 34v).
Watermark: Crown over 3 fleurs-de-lis in a heart shape, all surrounded by crossed leafy branches and surmounted by an orb topped with a cross, perhaps produced in Berne or Basel and used in northern Italy.
Binding: Modern parchment over card.
Origin: Probably written in a Sephardic community of Italy or of an island of the Venetian empire between 1650 and 1750 (likely date of watermark).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2007.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959626603503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3c01s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
