Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Pesiḳta rabata.
פסיקתא רבתא

Other related names

• Cohen, Abraham, 1887-1951, former owner
• Shimshon ben Gavriʼel, scribe
  שמשון בן גביאל,
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 26
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703., University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924613943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957032437
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2461394

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; introduction in Italian

Origin

Date

1563

Place

Castello

Summary

Collection of Midrash with an introduction in Venetian dialect (Italian-Spanish mix). Although identified at the top of the first page as Pesikta de-rav Kahanah, an inscription at the end of the text refers to it as Pesikta rabata. An introduction to the work is found on leaves 186-195.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon.
   
• Although identified at the top of the first page as Pesiḳta de-rav Ḳahanah, an inscription at the end of the text refers to it as Pesiḳta rabata. An introduction to the work is found on leaves 186-195.
   
• Byname: London manuscript.
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

195 leaves : 207 x 138 (165 x 95) mm bound to 215 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (19th-century) + i + 195 + i (19th-century); 1-184, [185-195], contemporary foliation in ink with Hebrew letters upper left recto and with Arabic numerals upper right verso. Gatherings A-H (each 5 bifolia) signed A-H, lower left recto of first leaf.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century library cloth; almost detached from block, sewing broken; title stamped in ink on spine, Pesikta Rabbathi.

Layout

Written in 20 lines.

Script

Written in Italian cursive script.

Colophon

Colophon: Tam ṿe-nishlam ha-yom Yom 1. koaḥ le-mispar Bene Yiśraʼel shenat 291 poh Ḳaśṭilyo ʻa. y. Shimshon y. ts. ṿ. b.k.r. Gavriʼel a.a.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Dr. Abraham Cohen (London).
   
• Formerly held in the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside right cover).
   

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• Jewish
• Paper

Licenses

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