University of Pennsylvania, LJS 41

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DS ID:

DS663

Shelfmark:

LJS 41

Title:

Megilat Ester] ... [etc.

Megillot

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

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

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

excerpts

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957979413503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3x927/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania