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Geographical treatise on the locations of all dispersed Jewish peoples, including the first mention of the New World in Hebrew, a diagram representing the sky over the New World, and accounts of the coasts of Africa, India, and the Far East, followed by a copy of a brief 15th-century treatise on chess.
Support: paper; Extent: 36 leaves : 197 x 143 (130 x 92) mm. bound to 206 x 153 mm; Collation: Paper, i + 36 + i; 1-3¹⁰ 4⁶. Catchwords on most leaves (f. 2-33), lower left verso.
Written in 30 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.
Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script by Joseph ben Abraham Finzi di Legnago (Fabrizio Lelli), with a note and drawing in the hand of the author (f. 32v, according to Edna Engel), and a brief work added at the end of the manuscript in a later hand (f. 35r-36r).
Diagram of 6 stars and 16 symbols resembling the letter S, with a caption explaining that they represent stars and lines in the sky in the New World (f. 32v); decorative additions in the outer margins of the early leaves of the manuscript, including several manicules (f. 1r-12v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
The author and his scribal workshop, but not this manuscript, are discussed in Engel, Edna. "Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi tradition of book making in northern Italy of the Renaissance period." In Jewish Art 18 (1992), 149-167.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work (Sotheby's).
2. f.35r-36r: Melitsah tsaḥah ʻal tseḥoḳ ha-shaḳ / Bonsenior ibn Yaḥya.
1. f.1r-34v: Igeret orḥot ʻolam / Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Written in northern Italy, probably Ferrara, after 1525 (Edna Engel).
Modern morocco, blind-tooled, over pasteboards.
Hebrew
Ownership inscriptions: Gui Senicano [?], Dalmatia, 1587 (front flyleaf, recto); Domino Jacomo, Gramaldi, Zamaria Razzaro, Zaliman (back flyleaf, verso).
Purchased by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2012.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 2012, lot 28.
Italy
Written in northern Italy, probably Ferrara, after 1525 (Edna Engel).
Hebrew
Ownership inscriptions: Gui Senicano [?], Dalmatia, 1587
Purchased by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2012.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 2012, lot 28.
Geographical treatise on the locations of all dispersed Jewish peoples, including the first mention of the New World in Hebrew, a diagram representing the sky over the New World, and accounts of the coasts of Africa, India, and the Far East, followed by a copy of a brief 15th-century treatise on chess.
The author and his scribal workshop, but not this manuscript, are discussed in Engel, Edna. "Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi tradition of book making in northern Italy of the Renaissance period." In Jewish Art 18 (1992), 149-167.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work (Sotheby's).
2. f.35r-36r: Melitsah tsaḥah ʻal tseḥoḳ ha-shaḳ / Bonsenior ibn Yaḥya.
1. f.1r-34v: Igeret orḥot ʻolam / Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol.
Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script by Joseph ben Abraham Finzi di Legnago (Fabrizio Lelli), with a note and drawing in the hand of the author (f. 32v, according to Edna Engel), and a brief work added at the end of the manuscript in a later hand (f. 35r-36r).
Diagram of 6 stars and 16 symbols resembling the letter S, with a caption explaining that they represent stars and lines in the sky in the New World (f. 32v); decorative additions in the outer margins of the early leaves of the manuscript, including several manicules (f. 1r-12v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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