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Title

Holy Land travel manuscript.

Authors

• Author of the Holy Land Travel manuscript, active 17th century
• Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636-1689

Other related names

• Zucker, Benjamin, 1940-, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79134957)

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 455
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967753153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/928641856
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37659w10

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German, in the Upper German dialect used in parts of Switzerland and southern Germany (Anna Baechtold, University of Bern), with vocalized Hebrew spellings of key words and place names

Origin

Date

between 1690 and 1699

Place

Bern?, Switzerland

Summary

Extensively illustrated treatise on the geography, cartography, flora, fauna, history, economy, ethniticies, and languages of the Holy Land, drawing heavily on the 1681 German edition of Olfert Dapper's Asia, oder, Genaue und gründliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins, oder belobten Landes, but also incorporating numerous additions from other published sources and marginal notes,comments, Biblical citations, and Hebrew spellings by the compiler. Without introduction, the text begins with Damascus and ends with the Church of the Sepulcher of Mary. Occasional stubs in the manuscript do not represent loss of text. An index follows the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Byname: Zucker Holy Land travel manuscript.
   

Watermark

An ascending bear (coat of arms of Bern), as used by the Güntisberger Erben papermakers in Worblaufen near Bern from 1690 to 1700 (The paper-mills of Berne and their watermarks, 1465-1859, plate 71, p. 166).

Extent

242 leaves : 195 x 160 (150 x 125) mm bound to 205 x 175 mm (with 4 folded-outs up to 195 x 305 mm)

Foliation

Paper, 242 leaves; 1-244, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners of text pages only; leaves of drawings or maps and leaves left blank for drawings or maps, so numerous as almost to alternate with text leaves, are unpaginated.

Support

Paper

Binding

Near-contemporary (late 17th- or early 18th-century) parchment.

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead; index written in 2 columns.

Script

Written in German cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Gift of Benjamin Zucker in honor of Alfred Moldovan, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Palestine--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
• Syria--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
• Middle East--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
• Middle East
• Syria

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscript maps
• Manuscripts, German
• Manuscripts, Hebrew
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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