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Title

Alphabetum Hebraicum ;

Authors

• Blasius, Bellunensis
• Cafaro, Girolamo
• Salici, Giovanni Andrea
• Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515

Call number

Ms. Codex 436
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486607
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486607

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian and Latin, with examples in Hebrew and Greek

Origin

Date

1682

Place

Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); title page presents as the author the name Blasius, with the word Bellunensis (meaning from the northern Italian town of Belluno) added in Egyptian letters; date 1682 is in Hebrew.
   
• Alphabetum Hebraicum is based on Aldo Manuzio.
   
• Music: Contains examples of note values and scales in various keys on 5-line staves in black ink (f. 95v-97v) and of psalm intonations and the Magnificat in 8 tones in black square notation on 14-line staves in red ink (f. 101r-106r).
   

Extent

112 leaves : 160 x 97 mm. bound to 171 x 105 mm

Foliation

Paper, 112; [iv], 1-20, 22-86, 95-98, [i], 99-110, 112-[117]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 21 appears to have been cut out; blank folio preceding f. 99; f. 107-116 blank, f. 87-94 cut out).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with 3 watercolor illustrations depicting a stack of books with the word Leges; spiders with the words Sicut aranearum; and a spider's web with the word Tela (inside upper cover).

Decoration

Alphabetical tables; astronomical diagrams in red, blue, and green ink (f. 68v-84v); "Tabula Paschalis antiqua Reformata" with a movable calendar tipped in (f. 85v-86v); a drawing of a Guidonian hand (f. 98v), illustrated title page (f. [iii] recto) depicts the ouroboros, the Nativity, the resurrected Christ, and a hand holding a quill pen, with "Blasius" and undeciphered title.

Script

Written in a single hand.

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Alphabets--Specimens
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts
• Letter writing, Hebrew
• Music theory--17th century
• Singing--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
• Perpetual calendars--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Alphabets (symbols)
• Diagrams
• Gregorian chant
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Alphabetum Hebraicum, f. 1v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Illustration, Stack of books, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Illustration, Spiders, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Illustration, Spiderweb, Inside front cover
• fol. 2r — Alphabetical table, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Alphabetical table, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Alphabetical table, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Alphabetical table, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Alphabetical table, f. 4r
• fol. 7r — Alphabetical table, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Alphabetical table, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Alphabetical table, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Alphabetical table, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Alphabetical table, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Alphabetical table, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Alphabetical table, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Alphabetical table, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Alphabetical table, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Alphabetical table, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Alphabetical table, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Alphabetical table, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Alphabetical table, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Numerical table, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Alphabetical table, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Alphabetical table, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Alphabetical table, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Alphabetical table, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Alphabetical table, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Alphabetical table, f. 17r