University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 57

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DS ID:

DS742

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 57

Title:

Astronomical anthology.

Place:

Catalonia

Catalonia TGN

Date:

[1361?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 114 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 275 x 204 (190 x 132) mm bound to 288 x 224 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sassoon, David Solomon, 1880-1942

David Solomon Sassoon WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 275 x 204 (190 x 132) mm. bound to 288 x 224 mm.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Modern blind-stamped morocco, with 2 sets of clasps and catches.
Decoration: 2 full-page color illustrations in gouache and ink of constellation maps (p. 112-113); 43 smaller illustrations of constellations in gouache and ink with gold bezants for stars (p. 117-144); panel headpiece in interlaced red and green penwork and full border of gold bezants flourished in colored ink (p. 1); numerous full-page diagrams and tables in red and brown ink; Gothic...
Script: Written in Sephardic cursive script by multiple hands, one perhaps of a scribe named Moshe (p. 2); headings written in square script.
Layout: Text written in 2 columns of 37 lines; some leaves ruled in faint ink.
Foliation: Parchment, iv (modern paper) + 114 + iv (modern paper; [1-228]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Origin: Written in Catalonia, ca. 1361.
Formerly owned by David Solomon Sassoon (Ms. 823), probably purchased in the mid-1920s.
Offered for sale as part of Sassoon's collection at auction at Sotheby's (New York), 4 December 1984, lot 88.
Offered for sale as part of Sassoon's collection at auction at Sotheby's (Zurich), 5 November 1975, lot 15.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1996, lot 48, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Formerly owned by the Carl Alexander Floersheim Trust for Art and Judaica (Bermuda).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Hebrew

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Medieval

treatises

Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts

Astrology

Zodiac in art

Astronomy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948521743503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k93169z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania