Details

Subjects:

Ladino language -- Texts.
Ladino language.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Texts.

Language:

Ladino.

Summary:

Ladino manuscript removed from a larger volume. The leaves have text in a center column, Hebrew letters used as numbers in the left margin, and roman letters in the right margin which may be later additions and somehow correspond to the numbers in the left margin. The regular use of numbers linked to the text suggests that the numbers may be verse numbers or ledger entries. Trimmed with loss of text at upper and lower edges.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 31 + i leaves; modern arabic numbers in pencil, usually upper right recto, may be foliation or pagination but are not in order.
Layout: Written in 35-37 long lines (after trimming); folio.
Script: Written in semi-cursive Sephardic script (Cassuto).
Binding: One detached cover, leather, blind-stamped borders, possibly from Lyon (Cassuto).
Origin: Possibly written in Morocco, late 16th century (Cassuto).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; collection notes housed in curatorial file); probably purchased in 1986 (note in photocopied collection notes).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1659.

Contributor:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

904725666

Access Restriction:

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