University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 479
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26053
- Shelfmark:
- CAJS Rar Ms 479
- Title:
- Manuscript Shulḥan 'Arukh Oraḥ Ḥayyim and Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ / כתב יד שלחן ערוך אורח חיים וחושן משפט
- Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575 / קארו, יוסף בן אפרים, 1488-1575
- Place:
- North Africa
- Date:
- between 1700 and 1799?
- Language:
- Hebrew, with two words in Judeo-Arabic (f. 78r)
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 227 leaves : paper ; 300 x 190 (250 x 155) mm bound to 315 x 210 mm
- Note:
- Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, auction 76 (June 14, 2018), lot 318.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 227 + ii (modern paper); modern foliation in pencil, 1-227, lower left recto.
Layout: Written in two columns of 34 lines for volume one, and 40-42 lines for volume two; all with indents.
Script: Written in a wide Eastern/North African script (from beginning until the last folio of Shulhan 'Arukh Oraḥ Ḥayyim, f. 1r-114v); a similar but thinner script on a slightly different paper (last folio of Oraḥ Ḥayyim, f.115r-115v); and in a meticulous Eastern/North African script with dramatic bold headers (for Shulḥan 'Arukh Ḥoshen ha-Mishpaṭ, f.116r-227v). Each section of the manuscript...
Decoration: Edges of text block dyed yellow.
Binding: Boards with cheap leather spine and corners; faded striped endbands, likely late 19th century.
Pressed plant discovered in the manuscript on 1-24-2019 between folios 154 and 155; laid-in with a custom envelope inside the front board. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9977353945803681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34m91h3f/manifest
- Holding Institution:
