University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 242

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DS ID:

DS764

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 242

Title:

Yemenite manuscript consisting of Va-yiḳra, Ba-midbar, Devarim.

Scribe:

Daṿid ben Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah / דוד בן בניה בן זכריה

Daṿid ben Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah WIKIDATA

Date:

1492-1509

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 157 leaves : paper ; 275 x 205 (195 x 95) mm bound to 285 x 210 mm

Former Owner(s):

Altsaʻadi, Seʻadyah ben Yehudah / אלצעבי, סדעיה בן יהודה

Seʻadyah ben Yehudah Altsaʻadi WIKIDATA

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Note:

"Nikhtevah zot ha-Torah ha-ṭohorah ṿeha-temimah le-ḥaver ha-ṭov ṿeha-naʼim neṭaʻ shaʻashuʻim... Seʻadyah ... b.Yehudah . b.Yosef ha-yaduʻa al-Tsaʻadi ... ."--Colophon (leaf 156 recto)
Origin: Written in Yemen in 1509 (Menachem Glatzer).
Ms. codex.
David Sasson ascibes authorship of the the poem "Shir l'Adonai shir emunah" to Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah (Ohel Daṿid, 1943, v. 2, p. 605). M. Beit-Arye acribes authorship of the poem to "Mosheh" (Sefer Haberman, 1977, p. 37-150).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern) + 157 + iii (modern); [i, 1-106, 108, 107, 109-156], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 20 lines.
Script: Writen in square Temanic script, by Daṿid ben Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah and possibly additional hands, vocalized and punctuated. Masorah is written on each page on upper, lower and outer margins, in the latter in a zigzag form (f. 2-152); text unvocalized and lacking masorah (f. 153-154); the writing at the beginning and at the end looks later.
Binding: Modern leather, blind-tooled.
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Formerly held in the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; gift from the Dropsie College Alumni Association, 1940s.
Formerly owned by Seʻadyah ben Yehudah Altsaʻadi.
Sold as part of the Romanoff Collection.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Bibles

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Manuscripts, Digital

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924372983503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x921k7n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania