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[Sephardic Pentateuch]. = [תורה ספרדית].

Publication:
[Spain], [between 1300 and 1350].
[ספרד], [1300-1350].
Format/Description:
Book
214 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 200 (145 x 130) mm bound to 260 x 210 mm.
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Standardized Title:
Bible. Pentateuch.
תנ"ך. תורה.
הפטרות.
מסורה גדולה.
Other Title:
מסורה קטנה.
Subjects:
Bible. Pentateuch -- Hebrew.
Haftarot -- Liturgical use -- Spain -- 14th century.
Jews -- Spain -- 14th century -- History -- Sources.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, European.
Codices.
Bibles.
Language:
Hebrew.
Summary:
This is a codex manuscript Hebrew Pentateuch on parchment; the extant text covers most of the Pentateuch and the Haftara weekly selections (with the surviving Pentateuch text begins in Genesis XI:1, ודברים אחדים; a missing leaf in Exodus excludes the text beginning with II:5, את-אמתה ויקחה, until III:12, כי אהיה עמך) and the final Haftara text extant is the one read following Parashat ʻEḳev (ותאמר ציון עזבני יהוה, from Isaiah IL:14; the text cuts off at verse 18, כי כלם [כעדי תלבשי]; f. 214v). Two separate gatherings of three leaves each from the (first printed) Híjar Pentateuch (Híjar: Eliezer ben Abraham Alatansi, 1487-1488?; see record for: [Six leaves from Pentateuch with Megillot and Haftarot]) are inserted to bracket the 18th gathering in the manuscript, likely to supplement missing text (printed leaves foliated as 135-137, 144-146; coverage of the text begins at the end of Numbers (XXXI:52, ויהי כל זהב (f. 134r), and the manuscript following the printed leaves begins again with XXXII:32, עבדיך כן יעשה (f. 138r)) and at the beginning of Deuteronomy (manuscript text missing after II:28, רק אעברה ברגלי, resuming after the printed leaves with III:20, איש לירשתו אשר נתתי לכם). Masora magna and parva written with the page.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, 214; ii (modern parchment) + 214 + ii (modern parchment); 1-4⁸ 5⁸ (-8, marked leaf missing) 6-16⁸ 17⁶ ⁺¹⁺²⁺³ (printed leaves) 18⁶ ⁺¹⁺²⁺³ (printed leaves) 19⁸ 20⁴ 21-27⁸ ; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto ; catchwords on the last leaf of most gatherings on lower left verso; gatherings 1, 3, 4 signed in Eastern Arabic Numerals.
Script: Written in Sephardic square script, vocalized and with cantillation (Biblical text), and Masoretic text written in a minuscule square script.
Binding: Modern full-leather binding (white leather on wood boards); spine in five parts; modern parchment endleaves.
Origin: Written in Spain (script), likely during the first half of the 14th century (script, parchment).
Inscriptions in ink in a 16th century North African hand (recording variants); two words of Aramaic translation, likely in a different hand (f. 140r); pen test (f. 175r).
Layout: Written mostly in two columns per folio side, of 24-25 lines (Biblical text; exceptions to this are the passages before the Song of the Sea, written in single columns of 15 lines (f. 50v-51r) written so as to open the column containing the Song with הבאים (in the proscription of ווי העמודים; Song written in a single brick-layered column of 20 lines; f. 51v); Decalogues partially center-indented (f. 56v, 149v); Song of Deborah in three interwoven columns (f. 190r-191r). Blind-ruled in two columns (vertical bounding lines), pricking at horizontals inside gutter; additional ruling lines for Masoretic text (horizontal bounding lines, two above and three below columns for Masora magna, outside and in-between columns for Masora parva).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly held in the Library of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; donated to Dropsie College from the collection of Mayer Sulzberger before 1932; former call number CAJS Rar Ms. 1; Hebrew incunabulum leaves identified first by Alexander Marx (letter, Joseph Reider to Alexander Marx, February 10, 1932, housed in the LKCAJS files).
Cited as:
Sephardic Pentateuch (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 364). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Contributor:
Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Contains:
Haftarot.
Masorah magna.
Masorah parva.
הפטרות.
מסורה גדולה.
מסורה קטנה.
OCLC:
954274746