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Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13, between 1100 and 1150

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gd1v
Title: Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13, between 1100 and 1150
Name: Josephus, Flavius
Date: 1100
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: fragments (object portions), histories, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Leaf from a large manuscript of the Latin translation of the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus. Written in transitional script (or protogothic script) in Italy in the first half of the 12th century. Ruled in lead for 2 columns of at least 50 lines, the leaf is damaged at both the top and the left edges, with roughly half of the inner column missing. Water and worms have both damaged the leaf. 1 2-line initial in red on verso. The leaf was later used as a binding fragment. It is from Book 13 (identified by Peter Toth, British Library), containing text describing the conquest of Ptolemais by Alexander, son of Antiochus II, an event also described in the Book of Maccabees.
Extent: 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 397 x 265 mm (with a small part of the leaf, 4 lines high, 314 mm wide)
Language: Latin
Coverage: 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Note: Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., In Latin.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gd1v, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs36.html
Subject: Alexander Balas, King of Syria, -145 B.C., Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 36
Provenance: Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9949888993503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gd1v/manifest

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