Details

Standardized Title:

Pesikta rabbati.
פסיקתא רבתי. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85299534

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Hebrew; introduction in Italian.

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.
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.
Layout: Written in 20 lines.
Script: Written in Italian cursive script.
Binding: 19th-century library cloth; almost detached from block, sewing broken; title stamped in ink on spine, Pesikta Rabbathi.
Origin: Written in Castello [Italy?] in 1563.
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.
Byname: London manuscript.
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Colophon: "תם ונשלם היום יום א' כח למספר בני ישראל שנת רצ"א פה קשטילו ע"י שמשון יצ"ו בכ"ר גבריאל א"א."

Penn 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).

Publications about:

Pesikta rabbati: a synoptic edition of Pesiquta rabbati based upon all evident manuscripts and the editio principles / [edited] by Rivka Ulmler], 3 vols., South Florida studies in the history of Judaism ; no. 155, 20 ( Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1997).

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

957032437