University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 460

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30207

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 460

Title:

Tavnit ha-mishkan; Ḥanukat ha-bayit

Author:

Ashkenazi, Malkiel, -approximately 1620

Place:

Mantua

Mantua TGN

Date:

between 1612 and 1620?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (27, 53 leaves) : paper ; Volume 1, 270 x 185 (205 x 95) mm bound to 280 x 195 mm; Volume 2, 270 x 180 (205 x 95) mm bound to 285 x 200 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Volume 1: Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper), 124(+3); Volume 2: Paper, i (modern paper) + 53 + i (modern paper), 120 230(+3).
Layout: Written in 23-27 long lines; leaves folded vertically into quarters to define the outer and inner margins.
Script: Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script (Kestenbaum).
Decoration: Volume 1: 6 small diagrams in the margins and text (f. 8r, 8v, 17r, 19v, 23v, 26r), large drawing of candelabra (f. 26v); Volume 2: approximately 30 small drawings and diagrams throughout in the margins and text.
Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) calf.
Origin: Written in Mantua, probably between 1612 (date of another work referenced in the text) and 1620 (end date of activity of the author).
Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company (New York), 25 June 2015, lot 1.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Manuscripts, European

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

Tabernacle

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9964307213503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania