Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize LJS 36: Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-14 2015-01-14 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 36: Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 36 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 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. In Latin Manuscript leaf from Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 Josephus, Flavius former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J

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 1 item (1 leaf) : 397 x 265 mm (with a small part of the leaf, 4 lines high, 314 mm wide) between 1100 and 1150 Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010. Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Alexander--Balas, King of Syria,---145 B.C Alexander--Balas, King of Syria,---145 B.C Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D fragments (object portions) histories Manuscripts, Latin--12th century Manuscripts, Medieval 12th century History Fragment Jewish Italy