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Title

Yemenite manuscript consisting of Va-yiḳra, Ba-midbar, Devarim.
]חומש תימני כולל ויקרא, במדבר, דברים[

Other related names

• Daṿid ben Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah, scribe
  דוד בן בניה בן זכריה,
• Altsaʻadi, Seʻadyah ben Yehudah, former owner
  אלצעבי, סדעיה בן יהודה,
• Amram, David Werner, 1866-1939, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 242
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703., University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924372983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957032344
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2437298

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Includes Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (f. 1-154), based on the Aaron Ben Asher masoretic text; poem "Shiru l'Adonai shir emunah yotsrah etselo amanah ṿe-ʻad lo nosdah" (f.155); 2 colophons (f. 156 recto and verso).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• "Nikhtevah zot ha-Torah ha-ṭohorah ṿeha-temimah le-ḥaver ha-ṭov ṿeha-naʼim neṭaʻ shaʻashuʻim... Seʻadyah ... b.Yehudah . b.Yosef ha-yaduʻa al-Tsaʻadi ... ."--Colophon (leaf 156 recto)
   
• David Sasson ascibes authorship of the the poem "Shir l'Adonai shir emunah" to Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah (Ohel Daṿid, 1943, v. 2, p. 605). M. Beit-Arye acribes authorship of the poem to "Mosheh" (Sefer Haberman, 1977, p. 37-150).
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

157 leaves : 275 x 205 (195 x 95) mm bound to 285 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern) + 157 + iii (modern); [i, 1-106, 108, 107, 109-156], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern leather, blind-tooled.

Layout

Written in 20 lines.

Script

Writen in square Temanic script, by Daṿid ben Benayah ben Seʻadyah ben Zekharyah and possibly additional hands, vocalized and punctuated. Masorah is written on each page on upper, lower and outer margins, in the latter in a zigzag form (f. 2-152); text unvocalized and lacking masorah (f. 153-154); the writing at the beginning and at the end looks later.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Seʻadyah ben Yehudah Altsaʻadi.
   
• Formerly held in the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; given to Dropsie College by David Werner Amram in 1924.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Bibles
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Digital

Keywords

• 16th century
• Bible
• Jewish
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Va-yikra, Ba-midbar, Devarim, f. 1r
• fol. 155r — Shiru l’Adonai shir emunah yotsrah etselo amanah ṿe-ʻad lo nosdah, f. 155r
• fol. 156r — Colophon, f. 156r
• fol. 156v — Colophon, f. 156v