Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13, between 1100 and 1150.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Josephus, Flavius

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Antiquitates Judaicae. Latin. Selections

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander Balas, King of Syria, -145 B.C.

Alexander.

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Jews.

Genre:

fragments (object portions)

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin -- 12th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 397 x 265 mm (with a small part of the leaf, 4 lines high, 314 mm wide)

Place of Publication:

between 1100 and 1150.

Language Note:

In Latin.

Summary:

Leaf from a large manuscript of the Latin translation of the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus. Written in transitional script (or protogothic script) in Italy in the first half of the 12th century. Ruled in lead for 2 columns of at least 50 lines, the leaf is damaged at both the top and the left edges, with roughly half of the inner column missing. Water and worms have both damaged the leaf. 1 2-line initial in red on verso. The leaf was later used as a binding fragment. It is from Book 13 (identified by Peter Toth, British Library), containing text describing the conquest of Ptolemais by Alexander, son of Antiochus II, an event also described in the Book of Maccabees.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 143 (LJS 36).

Cited as:

Flavius Josephus, Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae (Oversize LJS 36). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

721348300

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page