(Q8730)
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Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century
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Abū al-Ḥasan Sa'ad
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Sources
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Manuscripts, Renaissance
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Codices
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Jews--Italy--Sicily--History--Sources
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Judeo-Arabic, with a brief work in Hebrew (f. 25r-39v); notes in Samaritan (f. 1v-7v, 21r-22v, 3 bifolia laid in after f. 22v, marginal notes as on f. 281v), Arabic (f. 1r, marginal notes on Samaritan bifolia), and Latin letters (f. 20v, 25v, 238r, 239v)
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[circa 1443-1452]
15. century
1452Gregorian
1452Gregorian
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Extent: 307 leaves : paper ; 156-196 x 105-140 mm bound to 212 x 175 mm +
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Ms. codex.
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Origin: One section written in Catania, Sicily, in 1443 (f. 17v; determined from a chronogram by Tzvi Langermann); predominant text includes a date of 1452 (f. 169v; suggested from a chronogram by Les Enluminures).
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Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger.
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Binding: Modern library cloth, 20th century; one board of 19th-century binding inside modern flyleaves at front of volume, with colored, patterned paper pastedown.
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Foliation: Paper, ii (20th-century library cloth and card) + early board + ii (19th-century paper) + 307 + i (20th-century library cloth); 1²⁶ 2²⁰ 3-4¹⁴ 5²⁴ 6-7¹⁴ 8²⁰ 9¹⁴ 10¹⁵ 11-14¹⁴ 15²⁰ 16-19¹⁴ (Les Enluminures); [1-22, i-vi (bifolia laid in), 23-38, 40-245, 245-307]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto; foliation with Hebrew characters in ink, upper left recto (f. 40r-278r...
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Layout: Predominant work written in 27 long lines, with headings in a larger script (f. 40r-307v).
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Script: Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script with headings in square script (Les Enluminures), partly in the hand of Abū al-Ḥasan Sa'ad ben Hibat Alla ben al-Ḥasan the physician (f. 17v).
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Watermarks: Pirie's Old Style, 19th-century Samaritan bifolia (f. 21-22, 3 bifolia laid in); unidentified bell watermark on some leaves (Les Enluminures).
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Decoration: Manicules (f. 130r, 246r, 271r); some text in red ink and decorative borders in red and black ink in 19th-century Samaritan notes (f. 1v-7v); title page for a small notebook with decorative ink border, dated 1810 (f. 14v).
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Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2014.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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