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

Title

Hebrew Bible.

Other related names

• Saint Clement's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99079858)

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
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37m04495

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1470 and 1499?

Place

Italy

Summary

Hebrew Bible with Masorah, with the books of the prophets in Sephardic order (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel) and the books of writings in Palestinian order (Javier del Barco).

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(-1), 2-39¹⁰, 40¹⁰⁻¹(-10?); [1-398]; contemporary foliation in ink, beginning with 2 (bet), upper left recto, mostly trimmed away and only occasionally visible; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto. Catchwords on the lower left last verso of each gathering.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary stamped morocco.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; verticals ruled in lead, horizontals ruled in faint ink; commentary surrounds Bible text; parasha markers (first word of the reading) above the masorah in the upper margin.

Decoration

Ornamental penwork around some catchwords.

Script

Italo-Sephardic square script (Javier del Barco) with vocalization.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Pura, daughter of Nehemiah of Modena (f. 1r; Javier del Barco).
   
• Inscription documenting the sale by Binyamin Desforno, son of Rabbi Shem Tov Desforno, to Rabbi Isaac, son of Rabbi Uziel of Modena, 22 January 264 (1504), witnessed by Abraham Yehudah, son of Rabbi Yehiel, of Camerino and another witness (f. 396r). A transcription and translation by Javier del Barco is in the curatorial file.
   
• Offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch (London), catalog 176 (1898), number 6; catalog 290 (1901), number 31; and catalog 341 (1916), number 218.
   
• Sold by Wilfrid M. Voynich to the Yarnall Library of Theology, St. Clement's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), October 1917, Yarnall accession number 1377. The Yarnall accession entry includes the note "Rare MS written in Italy before 1480."
   
• Deposited with the Yarnall Library of Theology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Hebrew

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Bibles
• glossed Bibles
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

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