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Title

Facsimile of LJS 36, Manuscript leaf from an account of the Jewish Wars

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

5-31-2015

Files

Comments

Leaf from a large manuscript written in a Romanesque script in Italy in the 12th century. Ruled in lead for 2 columns of at least 50 lines, the leaf is damaged at both the top and the left edges, with roughly half of the inner column missing. Water and worms have both damaged the leaf. 1 2-line initial in red on verso. The leaf was later used as a binding fragment. It contains text describing the conquest of Ptolemais by Alexander, son of Antiochus II, an event also described in the Book of Maccabees.

Keywords

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D Fragments, Histories, Manuscripts Latin--12th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4988899

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs36.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 36, Manuscript leaf from an account of the Jewish Wars" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 120.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/120