Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Josephus, Flavius

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949888993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/721348651
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gd1v https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs36.html

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1100 and 1150

Summary

Leaf from a large manuscript of the Latin translation of the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus. Written in transitional script (or protogothic script) in Italy in the first half of the 12th century. Ruled in lead for 2 columns of at least 50 lines, the leaf is damaged at both the top and the left edges, with roughly half of the inner column missing. Water and worms have both damaged the leaf. 1 2-line initial in red on verso. The leaf was later used as a binding fragment. It is from Book 13 (identified by Peter Toth, British Library), containing text describing the conquest of Ptolemais by Alexander, son of Antiochus II, an event also described in the Book of Maccabees.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Alexander--Balas, King of Syria,---145 B.C
• Alexander--Balas, King of Syria,---145 B.C
• Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D

Genres

• fragments (object portions)
• histories
• Manuscripts, Latin--12th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 12th century
• History
• Fragment
• Jewish
• Italy

Licenses

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