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Title

Igeret orḥot ʻolam ... etc.

Authors

• Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai, ca. 1451-ca. 1525
• Ibn Yaḥya, Bonsenior, active 15th century
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Finzi, Joseph ben Abraham, scribe

Call number

LJS 499
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958289873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810338838
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3r30v http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5828987 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs499.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

after 1525

Place

Italy

Summary

Geographical treatise on the locations of all dispersed Jewish peoples, including the first mention of the New World in Hebrew, a diagram representing the sky over the New World, and accounts of the coasts of Africa, India, and the Far East, followed by a copy of a brief 15th-century treatise on chess.

Notes

• The author and his scribal workshop, but not this manuscript, are discussed in Engel, Edna. "Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi tradition of book making in northern Italy of the Renaissance period." In Jewish Art 18 (1992), 149-167.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work (Sotheby's).
   
• 2. f.35r-36r: Melitsah tsaḥah ʻal tseḥoḳ ha-shaḳ / Bonsenior ibn Yaḥya.
   
• 1. f.1r-34v: Igeret orḥot ʻolam / Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol.
   

Extent

36 leaves : 197 x 143 (130 x 92) mm. bound to 206 x 153 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 36 + i; 1-3¹⁰ 4⁶. Catchwords on most leaves (f. 2-33), lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern morocco, blind-tooled, over pasteboards.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Diagram of 6 stars and 16 symbols resembling the letter S, with a caption explaining that they represent stars and lines in the sky in the New World (f. 32v); decorative additions in the outer margins of the early leaves of the manuscript, including several manicules (f. 1r-12v).

Script

Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script by Joseph ben Abraham Finzi di Legnago (Fabrizio Lelli), with a note and drawing in the hand of the author (f. 32v, according to Edna Engel), and a brief work added at the end of the manuscript in a later hand (f. 35r-36r).

Provenance

• Ownership inscriptions: Gui Senicano [?], Dalmatia, 1587 (front flyleaf, recto); Domino Jacomo, Gramaldi, Zamaria Razzaro, Zaliman (back flyleaf, verso).
   
• Purchased by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2012.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 2012, lot 28.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish diaspora--Early works to 1800
• Geography--Early works to 1800
• Chess--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• diagrams
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Diagrams
• Treatise
• Geography
• Paper
• Jewish

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Igeret orh?ot ?olam, f. 1r
• fol. 35r — Melitsah tsah?ah ?al tseh?ok? ha-shak?, f. 35r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Manicule, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Manicule, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
• fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
• fol. 10v — Manicule, f. 10v
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v