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Metadata

DS ID:

DS733

Shelfmark:

LJS 499

Title:

Igeret orḥot ʻolam] ... [etc.

Geographical text

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

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work (Sotheby's).
Collation: Paper, i + 36 + i; 1-310 46. Catchwords on most leaves (f. 2-33), lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.
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).
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).
Binding: Modern morocco, blind-tooled, over pasteboards.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, probably Ferrara, after 1525 (Edna Engel).
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.
Ownership inscriptions: Gui Senicano [?], Dalmatia, 1587 (front flyleaf, recto); Domino Jacomo, Gramaldi, Zamaria Razzaro, Zaliman (back flyleaf, verso).
Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 2012, lot 28.
Purchased by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2012.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Sixteenth century

Chess

Geography

Early works

Jewish diaspora

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958289873503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania