Tavnit ha-mishkan : Ḥanukat ha-bayit.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ashkenazi, Malkiel, -approximately 1620.

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund. PU

Contributor:

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)--Early works to 1800.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Tabernacle--Early works to 1800.

Tabernacle.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company (New York), 25 June 2015, lot 1.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (27, 53 leaves) : paper ; Volume 1, 270 x 185 (205 x 95) mm bound to 280 x 195 mm; Volume 2, 270 x 180 (205 x 95) mm bound to 285 x 200 mm

Other Title:

Ḥanukat ha-bayit

Place of Publication:

[Mantua], [between 1612 and 1620?]

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

A work in 2 volumes: the first is on the building of the Tabernacle in the desert; the second is on the Temple in Jerusalem and its holy vessels. The first volume has some marginal notes; the second volume has abundant marginal notes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Volume 1: Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper), 1²⁴(+3); Volume 2: Paper, i (modern paper) + 53 + i (modern paper), 1²⁰ 2³⁰(+3).

Layout: Written in 23-27 long lines; leaves folded vertically into quarters to define the outer and inner margins.

Script: Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script (Kestenbaum).

Decoration: Volume 1: 6 small diagrams in the margins and text (f. 8r, 8v, 17r, 19v, 23v, 26r), large drawing of candelabra (f. 26v); Volume 2: approximately 30 small drawings and diagrams throughout in the margins and text.

Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) calf.

Origin: Written in Mantua, probably between 1612 (date of another work referenced in the text) and 1620 (end date of activity of the author).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

OCLC:

945556081