[Replica of a Sephardic Torah scroll].
[יצירת ספר תורה-ספרדית].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smeke, Alberto, donor.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Pentateuch. Hebrew

תנ"ך. תורה. עברית.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Hebrew.

Bible.

Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah (Jerusalem)--Art.

Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah (Jerusalem).

Genre:

scrolls (information artifacts)

finials.

pilgrim souvenirs.

Penn Provenance:

Smeke, Alberto (donor)

Physical Description:

1 printed roll ; 4 cm (printed scroll) ; 18 x 7 cm (container)

Manufacture:

[Jerusalem?] : [unidentified maker], [2000?-2022]

[ירושלים?] : [יצרן בלתי-מזוהה], [2000?-2022]

Summary:

Replica of a Sephardic Torah scroll, printed on paper, housed in a bronze hinged Torah scroll container (תיק); scroll from which it is copied was written in a 20th century Ashkenazic ritual script (scroll is on stationary rollers, open to Leviticus 4). Container with concave upper portion, surfaced in imitation chasing, adorned by a pineapple; double finials (attached, in the Sephardic custom); body of container stamped with an impression of Jerusalem's Old City; Tablets of Stone between Judah's lions framed at center. Inner coated in green felt; bottom in black felt. An example of a Jerusalem pilgrim souvenir, size common to that of the 21st century.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

Donated to the Penn Libraries by Alberto Smeke, 2022.

OCLC:

1393184517