University of Pennsylvania, LJS 42
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS671
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 42
- Title:
- Bet Elohim; Shaʻar ha-shamayim
- Almosnino, Moses ben Baruch, approximately 1515-approximately 1580
- Scribe:
- Luzio, Chaim
- Place:
- Thessalonikē
- Date:
- 1551
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 162 leaves : paper ; 268 x 177 (198-208 x 122-135) mm bound to 276 x 195 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ashkenazi, Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz
Kuzi, Yitzhak Nahum
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, vi (later paper) + 162 + i (later paper); 7-168, early foliation in ink, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; commentary set in text in half-width columns.
Script: Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r).
Decoration: 9 diagrams in color (f. 31v, 77v, 82v, 88r, 102v, 105v, 116r, 119r, 126v) and numerous diagrams in black ink, set in text; 4 tables (f. 44r, 47r, 48v, 54v) in black ink
Binding: Early (16th-century?) Greek blind-stamped goatskin over pasteboards; leaves from 19th-century Parisian publications pasted inside covers.
Origin: Written in Thessalonikē (Salonika), Greece, 1551 (f. 76r, 168r).
Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi (colophons, f. 76r, 168r).
Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902 (inscription, flyleaf).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (Jerusalem), 24 May 1987, lot 52.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1991, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957977613503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gf0mx1v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
