Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

[Ladino manuscript].

[Morocco?], [between 1575 and 1599?]

32 leaves : paper ; 275 x 205 mm.

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.

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).

UPenn Ms. Codex 1659.

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1659