Seder ledat ha-Ari zal u-shevaḥaṿ.
סדר לידת האר"י ז"ל ושבחיו.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Abitbol, Salomão, former owner.

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Rabbis.

Israel--Tsefat.

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572.

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon.

Rabbis--Israel--Tsefat--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies (documents)

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Salomão Abitbol, Lisbon, 1927 (inscription inside upper cover).

Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate, inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r, 41r, back flyleaf); probably purchased in 1978 (date in pencil, inside upper cover).

Sold by the Cassuto family in Portugal, 2014.

Physical Description:

41 leaves : paper ; 155 x 94 (112 x 72) mm bound to 160 x 102 mm

Production:

[Portugal?], 1843.

Other Title:

Shivḥe ha-Ari

שבחי הארי

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

The story of Arizal (Isaac ben Solomon Luria), a 16th-century rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Tsefat in the Galilee region, and accounts of his miracles. A preface by the unnamed compiler precedes the text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from incipit (p. 1); alternate title from running title throughout (upper right corners).

Pagination: Paper, ii + 41 + ii leaves; [i-ii], 1-80, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Catchwords on most leaves.

Layout: Written in 17-23 long lines; octavo.

Script: Written in semi-cursive Sephardic script.

Binding: Contemporary (mid-19th-century) marbled paper.

Origin: Probably written in Portugal, in 1843 (Hebrew date 623, p. i).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1654

OCLC:

904016362