University of Pennsylvania, LJS 468

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DS ID:

DS704

Shelfmark:

LJS 468

Title:

Meḳitse nirdamim.

Author:

Alguadez, Meir ben Solomon, active 1390-1410

Meir ben Solomon Alguadez WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[after 1546]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Latin

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 109 leaves : paper ; 212 x 146 (131 x 80) mm bound to 220 x 167 mm

Former Owner(s):

Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900

Solomon Joachim Halberstam WIKIDATA

Rabbinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata, 1835-1888

Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinowitz WIKIDATA

Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England)

Judith Lady Montefiore College WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Modern buckram.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 16th century.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-3, 5-110], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on many leaves, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 26-27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead on versos only; prickings visible on most pages.
Script: Hebrew written in Sephardic semi-cursive; Latin written in humanistic cursive.
Decoration: Occasional elaborate manicules (f. 16v, 19r, 47r, 49v, 52v in text, 67r, 71v, 81v, 89v, 90v, 102v); small decorations in ink dots above headings (for example, f. 8r, 9r, 9v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 444 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 444; stamps, f. 8r, 105v).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 329, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam (ms. 407, Montefiore label inside upper cover).
Sold at auction as part of Raphael Nathan Nata Rabbinovicz's collection, Munich, March 1882, lot 36.
Early ownership inscriptions: Abraham Nizza and Judah Trabot of Nizza (Nice, f. 1r); Israel Jeremiah, Kislev 5369 (1608-1609, f. 8r); brother of David Jona (f. 2r).
Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

translations (documents)

prescriptions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959058103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gh9b941/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania