University of Pennsylvania, LJS 41

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS663

Shelfmark:

LJS 41

Title:

Megilat Ester ... etc..

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 16 leaves : parchment ; 87 x 65 (53 x 40) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 16; 1⁸ 2-3⁴.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines.
Script: Written in Italian Sephardic semi-square script with vowel points and cantillation marks (f. 1-15); poems on added leaf at end written in semi-cursive rabbinic Italian Sephardic script.
Binding: Early parchment over pasteboards.
Decoration: Later (possibly 19th-century) illuminated foliate borders (f. 1-15).
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Sold at auction at Swann Galleries, 11 December 1988, lot 206A, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Manuscripts, Renaissance

excerpts

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957979413503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x927/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania