Gift of Stephan Loewentheil, 2020.; Formerly owned by Leon Norza (signature on final leaf).; Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Co. (New York), 12 November 2002, lot 476.; Offered by 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop (Brooklyn, New York), 2018.
Norza, Leon, former owner.; Loewentheil, Stephan, donor.; Urbino, Yeḥiʼel Menaḥem ben Avraham, scribe.
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Notes:
Decoration: Curtains and tassels on the title page in a design surrounding the opening text (f. 1r).; Layout: Written in 12-13 lines.; Binding: Hard paper binding with brown leather spine; much of the spine is peeling, and corners of the boards bumped and peeling.; Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r); Script: Written in a vocalized northern Italian square script in the hand of Yeḥiʼel Menaḥem ben Avraham Urbino, a scribe who was known to have written liturgical and synagogue items in northern Italy in the second half of eighteenth century.; Hebrew, with instructions in Italian.
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