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[Bifolium from an Iberian Bible].
[דפים מתנ"ך ספרדית].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 620
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Hebrew.
- תנ"ך.
- תנ"ך. דברים, ל"ב:מ"ז-ל"ה:ט.
- תנ"ך. קהלת, ג':י-ה':י"ג.
- מגלת אנטיוכוס.
- Language:
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Spain--14th century--History--Sources.
- Jews--Portugal--14th century--History--Sources.
- Jews--Spain--15th century--History--Sources.
- Jews--Portugal--15th century--History--Sources.
- Sephardim--Liturgy--Texts.
- Genre:
- Bibles
- apocrypha
- fragments (object portions)
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number Colker Ms. 043); purchased by Colker from James Stevens-Cox (1910-1999; collector, bookseller, publisher, and writer; Christie's).
- Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (28 November-12 December 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.
- Physical Description:
- 1 bifolium (2 leaves) : parchment ; 286 x 239 (parchment) ; 242 x 169 mm (textblock) ; 196 x 75 mm (ruled columns)
- Place of Publication:
- [Spain?], [between 1350 and 1450].
- [ספרד?], [1350-1450].
- Language Note:
- Hebrew; text of the Scroll of Antiochus in the original Aramaic (f. 1r-v).
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript bifolium from an Iberian Hebrew Bible which had the Five Scrolls following the Pentateuch; the surviving text is from Deuteronomy XXXII:47, הזה תאריכו ימים על האדמה until XXIV:9, כי סמך משה את ידיו עליו וישמעו (f. 1v); the text continues (on what was the conjugate leaf) in Ecclesiastes, beginning with III:10-11, את הכל עשה יפה בעתו, and ending with V:13, ואבד העשר ההוא בענין רע (f. 2v). The text of the Scroll of Antiochus is written on the upper and lower margins of the first folio, contemporary with the writing of the manuscript; text begins אתיתי לביעל קדם ניקנור (f. 1r) and stops after אמיה לאעקא ליהוד ולירושלים (f. 1v)).
- Notes:
- Ms. leaves.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Parchment, 2; modern foliation in pencil, 1-2, lower left recto.
- Layout: Written in 26 lines in two columns, frame-ruled in drypoint; two narrow lines ruled above columns and three lines below columns for marginal text; pricking on ruling at gutter; punch holes; one catchword (f. 2v).
- Script: Written in a Iberian square script, vocalized and with cantillation (Biblical text; text of Scroll of Antiochus written in smaller vocalized characters, possibly in a different hand).
- Origin: Written in Iberia during the second half of the 14th century, or the first half of the 15th century.
- Decoration: Sedra divider in pen-work (curls and fleuron around the word פרש; f. 1r).
- Cited as:
- Bifolium from an Iberian Bible (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 620). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Bible. Deuteronomy, XXXII:47-XXIV:9.
- Bible. Ecclesiastes, III:10-V:13.
- Scroll of Antiochus.
- תנ"ך. דברים, ל"ב:מ"ז-ל"ה:ט.
- תנ"ך. קהלת, ג':י-ה':י"ג.
- מגלת אנטיוכוס.
- OCLC:
- 1373210390
- Online:
- Unique at Penn
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