University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 495
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25732
- Shelfmark:
- CAJS Rar Ms 495
- Title:
- Hilkhot sheḥiṭah [bediḳah u-ṭerefot / הלכות שחיטה בדיקה וטרפות
- Place:
- Liśloa
- Date:
- 1780.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 19 leaves : paper ; 220 x 140 (160 x 100) mm bound to 225 x 155 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Monteles, Avraham de / דמונטיליץ, אברהם
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from first heading and headings later on in the manuscript (f. 1r; 10r).
Collation: Paper, i + 19 + i; 17 (+7) 2-36, 1 leaf; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-19.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines ruled in hardpoint; single indents follow each heading, while the final word for the preceding paragraph finishes without a period, as if in a open dialogue style.
Script: Written in a square script more typical of Italy in the hand of Mosheh de Milhaud; he was clearly quite expert at fine writing.
Formerly owned by Avraham de Monteles (signature, f. i recto); this may have been a relative of the wider de Monteles family, who were authors of other halakhic texts, such as R. Joseph b. Avraham de Monteles (17th century?), who authored Orḥot ḥayim, a ḳitsur based on the Shulḥan ʻarukh Oraḥ ḥayim, preserved in Ets Haim Library Amsterdam Netherlands 47 E 31. This owner inscribes local...
Binding: Limp parchment wrappers, likely original.
Origin: Written in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue by Mosheh de Milhaud on behalf of the bachelor Eliyahu ben Ya'akov Carmi of Carpentras on 15 Adar I 5540 (Monday, 21 February 1780; colophon f. 18v).
GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9977523745903681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32n4zq4m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
