University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 453
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS691
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 453
- Title:
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Averroës, 1126-1198
- Scribe:
- Judah ben Jacob, 15th century
- Place:
- Germany?
- Date:
- 1446.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 269 leaves : paper ; 303 x 201 (201 x 120) mm bound to 311 x 225 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Itzig, Daniel, 1723-1799
Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842
Jews' College (London, England)
Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern) + 269 + ii (modern); [1-269], modern foliation in pencil; 1-97 foliated lower center recto, followed by foliation upper left recto on the leaves before and after the beginning and ending of component works (foliation for 162-176 all one higher than actual, with later foliation correct again). Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 28 long lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; running titles, top center recto (f. 1r-250v). End of manuscript written in 40 long lines (f. 251r-269r).
Script: Written in Ashkenazi semi-cursive script with headings in a larger script in the hand of Judah ben Jacob (f. 1r-250v, colophon f. 250v), with a second hand at the end of the volume (f. 251r-269r).
Decoration: Possible remnant of a marginal diagram in ink (f. 9v); marginal sketch of a face, perhaps a demon, in ink (f. 15r); manicules only in the works at the end written by a second hand (f. 252r-253r, 262r, 263r).
Binding: Modern morocco.
Origin: Probably written in Germany, with a colophon dated 1446 (f. 250v); the following pages (f. 251r-269r) may have been written elsewhere and at another time.
Formerly owned by Daniel Itzig, manuscript collector and court Jew in Prussia (ownership stamp, with Hebrew text and roman initials DI, f. 39r).
Probably formerly owned by Solomon Hirschell, later chief rabbi of London, who bought many of Itzig's manuscripts (ownership label, with Hebrew text and number 126, f. 1r).
Formerly held in the library of Jews' College (London; stamp, f. 1r).
Formerly held in the library of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Ashkenazi rabbinical court, London), no. 41 (spine).
Sold at auction at Christie, Manson & Woods as part of the collection of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah, 23 Jun. 1999, lot 15, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 76, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959504323503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3sj19r8g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
