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[Hebrew Bible].

Format/Description:
Manuscript
398 leaves : parchment ; 214 x 144 (176 x 118 with commentary, 124 x 94 Bible text only) mm bound to 215 x 158 mm
Production:
[Modena?, Italy], [1480?]
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Standardized Title:
Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew
Subjects:
Bible. Old Testament -- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Bible. Old Testament.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Bibles.
Glossed Bibles.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Hebrew.
Summary:
Hebrew Bible with the Masorah.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; ruled in faint ink; commentary surrounds Bible text.
Script: Square letters with vocalization.
Decoration: Ornamental penwork around some catchwords.
Binding: Contemporary stamped morocco.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Modena, circa 1480 (Yarnall Library catalog).
Forms part of: Yarnall Collection.
Penn 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.
Cited in:
Described in Ayer, Joseph Cullen. Yarnall Library of Theology of St. Clement's Church (Philadelphia: Ellis Hornor Yarnall Foundation, 1933), p. 16
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1052.
OCLC:
155930788
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