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
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 162 leaves : paper ; 268 x 177 (198-208 x 122-135) mm bound to 276 x 195 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Kuzi, Yitzhak Nahum
Ashkenazi, Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Thessalonikē (Salonika), Greece, 1551 (f. 76r, 168r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Early (16th-century?) Greek blind-stamped goatskin over pasteboards; leaves from 19th-century Parisian publications pasted inside covers.
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
Foliation: Paper, vi (later paper) + 162 + i (later paper); 7-168, early foliation in ink, upper left recto.
Script: Written in a Sephardic rabbinic cursive script with headings in larger script, in the hand of Chaim Luzio (f. 76r, 168r).
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; commentary set in text in half-width columns.
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.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (Jerusalem), 24 May 1987, lot 52.
Formerly owned by Yitzhak Nahum Kuzi, Damascus, 1902 (inscription, flyleaf).
Originally owned by Peretz ben Yehuda Mintz Ashkenazi (colophons, f. 76r, 168r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957977613503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gf0mx1v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
