University of Pennsylvania, LJS 499

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS733

Shelfmark:

LJS 499

Title:

Igeret orḥot ʻolam ... etc..

Author:

Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai, approximately 1451-approximately 1525

Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Finzi, Joseph ben Abraham

Joseph ben Abraham Finzi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[after 1525]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 36 leaves : paper ; 197 x 143 (130 x 92) mm bound to 206 x 153 mm

Note:

Collation: Paper, i + 36 + i; 1-3¹⁰ 4⁶. Catchwords on most leaves (f. 2-33), lower left verso.
The author and his scribal workshop, but not this manuscript, are discussed in Engel, Edna. "Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi tradition of book making in northern Italy of the Renaissance period." In Jewish Art 18 (1992), 149-167.
Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work (Sotheby's).
Origin: Written in northern Italy, probably Ferrara, after 1525 (Edna Engel).
Binding: Modern morocco, blind-tooled, over pasteboards.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Diagram of 6 stars and 16 symbols resembling the letter S, with a caption explaining that they represent stars and lines in the sky in the New World (f. 32v); decorative additions in the outer margins of the early leaves of the manuscript, including several manicules (f. 1r-12v).
Script: Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script by Joseph ben Abraham Finzi di Legnago (Fabrizio Lelli), with a note and drawing in the hand of the author (f. 32v, according to Edna Engel), and a brief work added at the end of the manuscript in a later hand (f. 35r-36r).
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.
Purchased by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2012.
Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 2012, lot 28.
Ownership inscriptions: Gui Senicano [?], Dalmatia, 1587 (front flyleaf, recto); Domino Jacomo, Gramaldi, Zamaria Razzaro, Zaliman (back flyleaf, verso).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

diagrams

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Geography

Chess

Jewish diaspora

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958289873503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r30v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania