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Title

Sefer Halikhot ʻolam ; Sefer ha-yirʼah.
ספר הליכות עולם ; ספר היראה

Authors

• Jeshua ben Joseph, ha-Levi, active 15th century
  ישועה בן יוסף
• Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi, approximately 1200-1263
  יונה בן אברהם גירונדי

Other related names

• Bormad, Avraham, former owner
  בורמאד, אברהם.
• Bormad, Mosheh, former owner
  בורמאד, משה.
• Bormad, Shimʻon Masoud, former owner
  בורמאד, שמעון מסעוד.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 689
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979067796503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1419547936
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

1701

Place

Damascus? Syria

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from f. 1r.
   
• 1. f.1r-92v: Sefer Halikhot ʻolam / Jeshua ben Joseph ha-Levi -- 2. f. 93r-110v: Sefer ha-yirʼah / Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi.
   

Extent

110 leaves : 173 x 110 (130 x 70) mm bound to 180 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 110 + i (modern paper); contemporary foliation in ink, upper left recto; modern foliation in pencil, 1-110, lower left recto (references in this record to modern foliation only).

Support

Paper

Binding

Patterned paper on boards, with a leather spine; two raised bands on spine.

Layout

Written mostly in 21 lines, aligned center; caption built-in to column; annotations in outer margins; one tapered layout (f. 109v).

Script

Written in a Spanish semicursive script, and captions in a Spanish square script.

Provenance

• Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 140 (21 February 2023) lot 103.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish law--Interpretation and construction
• Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800
• Jews--Syria--Damascus--18th century--History--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sefer Halikhot ʻolam / Jeshua ben Joseph ha-Levi
• fol. 1r — ספר הליכות עולם \ ישועה בן יוסף הלוי
• fol. 93r — Sefer ha-yirʼah / Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi
• fol. 93r — ספר היראה \ יונה בן אברהם גירונדי