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[Bifolium from a manuscript Shalshelet ha-ḳabalah].
[קטע מכתב יד שלשלת הקבלה].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn Yaḥya, Gedaliah ben Joseph, 1515-1587.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Martyrs.
- Italy.
- Jews--Persecutions--Spain.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Spain.
- Jews--History--14th century--Chronology.
- Jews--History--15th century--Chronology.
- Martyrs--Jews.
- Jews--Italy--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Chronologies.
- Extracts (partial documents)
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.
- Physical Description:
- 2 leaves : paper ; 190 x 145 (166 x 120) mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy?], [between 1575 and 1650]
- [איטליה?], [בין 1575-1650]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This is a bifolium extracted from an early codex manuscript of the work Shalshelet ha-ḳabalah by Gedaliah ben Joseph Ibn Yaḥya; the extract centers on Ibn Yaḥya's recounting of the persecutions of the Jews in Spain and their ultimate expulsion in 1492. The codex begins with לפרוע סך רב ממעות ונצולו ונמצא עון and finishes with כל הנכנסים במלכותו יפרעו ב' דוקאטו (pages 268-272 in the Jerusalem 1962 edition). Episodes in the text include the massacres of the Jews in Seville, Castile, and Aragon in 1391 (f. 1r-v), the Alhambra Decree and expulsion, and episodes concerning Don Isaac Abravanel's activism on behalf of Spanish Jewry with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (f. 2v).
- Notes:
- Ms. leaves.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, 2; 1² ; original foliation in ink, upper left recto, [114-115]; modern foliation in pencil, [1-2], lower left recto.
- Layout: Written in 35-36 lines; single catchword at lower left of each folio side.
- Script: Written in a Sephardic semicursive script.
- Origin: Written in Italy between the last quarter of the 16th century until the middle of the 17th century.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Karp BII.45c.
- OCLC:
- 1285606324
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