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

Title

Hebrew Bible

Call number

Ms. Codex 1052
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940242833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84694997
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4024283

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

ca. 1480

Place

Modena?, Italy

Summary

Hebrew Bible with the Masorah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Yarnall Collection.
   

Extent

398 leaves : 214 x 144 (176 x 118 with commentary, 124 x 94 Bible text only) mm. bound to 215 x 158 mm

Collation

Parchment, 398; 1¹⁰(-1), 2-39¹⁰, 40¹⁰(-1); [1-398]; contemporary foliation, upper left recto, mostly trimmed away and only occasionally visible; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto. Catchwords on the last verso of each gathering.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary stamped morocco.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; ruled in faint ink; commentary surrounds Bible text.

Decoration

Ornamental penwork around some catchwords.

Script

Square letters with vocalization.

Provenance

• Ownership note at beginning of text suggests that the manuscript was owned by a descendant of Nehemiah of Modena (f. 1r). Another note, difficult to read, follows the Bible text, and may include the signature Abraham Judah, son of Yehiel of Camerino (f. 396r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Yarnall Library of Theology, St. Clement's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.); acquired by the Yarnall Library before 1933.
   
• Deposited with the Yarnall Library of Theology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Bible
• Glossed Bibles
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Commentary
• Bible
• Biblical
• Jewish
• Italy
• Gloss

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover