University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 364
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS769
- Shelfmark:
- CAJS Rar Ms 364
- Title:
- Sephardic Pentateuch / תורה ספרדית
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1350].
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 214 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 200 (145 x 130) mm bound to 260 x 210 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, 214; ii (modern parchment) + 214 + ii (modern parchment); 1-48 58 (-8, marked leaf missing) 6-168 176 +1+2+3 (printed leaves) 186 +1+2+3 (printed leaves) 198 204 21-278 ; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto ; catchwords on the last leaf of most gatherings on lower left verso; gatherings 1, 3, 4 signed in Eastern Arabic Numerals.
Script: Written in Sephardic square script, vocalized and with cantillation (Biblical text), and Masoretic text written in a minuscule square script.
Binding: Modern full-leather binding (white leather on wood boards); spine in five parts; modern parchment endleaves.
Origin: Written in Spain (script), likely during the first half of the 14th century (script, parchment).
Inscriptions in ink in a 16th century North African hand (recording variants); two words of Aramaic translation, likely in a different hand (f. 140r); pen test (f. 175r).
Formerly held in the Library of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; donated to Dropsie College from the collection of Mayer Sulzberger before 1932; former call number CAJS Rar Ms. 1; Hebrew incunabulum leaves identified first by Alexander Marx (letter, Joseph Reider to Alexander Marx, February 10, 1932, housed in the LKCAJS files). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9968536303503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34j0b06s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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