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 114 leaves : 227 x 165 (162 x 85) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm Paper, 114; 1³ 2-9¹² 10³; catchwords on last versos of gatherings 2, 4, and 7 (f. 15v, 39v, 75v); foliation in Hebrew numerals in ink, 1-107 (beginning on f. 4), upper left recto; [1-114], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Written in 26-28 long lines. Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script, in the hand of Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo. Small diagrams and/or tables (f. 1v, 2v, 63r, 89r, 102v, 105v). Diagram, f. 1v Table, f. 2v Diagram, f. 2v Stamp, f. 3r Stamp, f. 22r Table, f. 63r Table, f. 89r Diagram, f. 102v Table, f. 105v Stamp, f. 114v

Contemporary (16th-century) morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled strapwork.

Written in Siena (f. 10r, 18v) in 1533 (f. 10r, 18v, 90r).

1533 Siena Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto. Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 19 (Halberstam number on Montefiore label on spine and inside upper cover). Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 358 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 358; library stamps, f. 3r, 114v). Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899. Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 430, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise 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 Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script 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 Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Medicine--Early works to 1800 Jewish magic--Early works to 1800 Codices Diagrams Tables (documents) Treatises Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 16th century Document Tables Diagrams Science -- Medicine Paper Italy Jewish Magic