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Title

Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1659 - [Ladino manuscript]. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

Files

Date of this Version

6-6-2022

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1659, a 16th century manuscript written in Ladino (aka Judeo-Spanish or Sephardi, a Romance language written using the Hebrew alphabet and spoken by Sephardic Jews), 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.

Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9963671893503681

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6367189

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1659.html

Keywords

Ladino language -- Texts, Manuscripts Hebrew -- 16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

Disciplines

Jewish Studies | Language Interpretation and Translation

Streaming Media

Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2022, June 06). Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1659 - [Ladino manuscript]. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/132