University of Pennsylvania, LJS 470

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DS ID:

DS707

Shelfmark:

LJS 470

Title:

Medical and magical compendium.

Scribe:

Abraham ben Meshullam, of Sant'Angelo

Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo WIKIDATA

Place:

Siena

Siena TGN

Date:

1533.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew, with occasional notes in Italian (f. 22r, 24v, 26v, 27v, 82v, 83v)

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 114 leaves : paper ; 227 x 165 (162 x 85) mm bound to 235 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865

Samuel David Luzzatto WIKIDATA

Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900

Solomon Joachim Halberstam WIKIDATA

Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England)

Judith Lady Montefiore College WIKIDATA

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 114; 1³ 2-9¹² 10³; catchwords on last versos of gatherings 2, 4, and 7 (f. 15v, 39v, 75v); foliation in Hebrew numerals in ink, 1-107 (beginning on f. 4), upper left recto; [1-114], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Origin: Written in Siena (f. 10r, 18v) in 1533 (f. 10r, 18v, 90r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 26-28 long lines.
Script: Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script, in the hand of Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo.
Decoration: Small diagrams and/or tables (f. 1v, 2v, 63r, 89r, 102v, 105v).
Binding: Contemporary (16th-century) morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled strapwork.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 430, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 358 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 358; library stamps, f. 3r, 114v).
Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 19 (Halberstam number on Montefiore label on spine and inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Hebrew

tables (documents)

treatises

Jewish magic

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959102523503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3707wp5z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania