University of Pennsylvania, Halper 435

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25676

Shelfmark:

Halper 435

Title:

Part of Sefer Maʹalot ha-midot, an ethical treatise

Ethical treatise

Author:

Anav, Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin, active 13th century

Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin Anav WIKIDATA

Place:

Byzantium

Istanbul TGN

Date:

13th century-14th century?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive, nearly complete; orn. dev

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. : non-consecutive, nearly complete; orn. dev.

Note:

Chapter ending copied in decorative form of an inverted triangle; chapter headings, endings, and catchwords at end of both versi are decorated.
Fol. 1 is on the messianic era and the revival of the dead (as one unit), probably from near the end of the first chapter "Knowledge of God", similar to, in the published edition.
Fol. 1 recto has a word added between the lines, possibly by the scribe. Fol 2 recto has two corrections in the margin, written in a different hand.
Fol. 2, recto contains the end of chapter 5 "Acts of Kindness" (גמילות חסד), starting, in the above edition, p. 85 l. 10. Verso contains the beginning of the 6th chapter, "Charity", up to p. 87 l. 2.
Jerusalem: Sefer Maʹalot ha-midot. Jerusalem : Eshkol, 1978, (from the autograph ms. British Library 828) pp. 32-33. The text here differs from the common edition, including different sources and structure.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Friedenwald.

Keyword:

Early works

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Medieval

Jewish ethics

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421143503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zk5653m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania