Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Main text scribe - Non-square (Beinoni)
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Biblioteca Laurenziana (Florence, Italy)
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Main text scribe - Non-square (Beinoni)
Scribe
Scribe identified by handwriting
Main text scribe
The scribe has been identified on the basis of the characteristics of the script and book production, through comparison with other manuscripts copied by him. See: N. Pasternak, “Yitzḥaq ben ‘Ovadiah…”, Tarbiz 68, no. 3 (1999), pp. 411–428. On the history of the manuscript: N. Pasternak, A Meeting Point of Hebrew & Latin Manuscript Production, Scrittura & Civiltà 44 (2002), p. 194, notes 41.
Script Definition
Italian
Non-square (Beinoni)
Calligraphic
Display
Rotunda
Global Aspect of the Script
- Attached to the headline
- Ascenders go above the headline
- Descenders descend below the baseline
Stable
Smaller than the height of the line of writing
- Stable
- Smaller than the width of an average he
Variable
Slow
Irregular spacing
Approximate Size of Average Letters
- Regular size
- Elongated vertically
- Ascenders are shorter than the height of the average letter
- Descenders are shorter than the height of the average letter
- Downstrokes are not parallel
- Horizontal strokes are not parallel
- Ascenders are not parallel to the downstrokes
- Descenders are not parallel to the downstrokes
- Ascenders are parallel among them
- Descenders are parallel among them
- Thin, traced with the edge of the flat nib
- There is shading
Decoration
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Decoration - #45160
Justification
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Justification - #45133
Letter
Aleph
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45116
Beth
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45141
Gimel
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45136
Daleth
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45159
He
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45152
Vav
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45154
Zayin
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45147
Ḥeth
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45151
Ṭeth
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45149
Yod
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45145
Kaph
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45139
Kaph: final
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45144
Lamed
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45158
Mem
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45142
Mem: final
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45137
Nun
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45153
Nun: final
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45146
Samekh
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45161
'Ayin
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45148
Pe
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45157
Pe: final
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45150
Ṣade
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45143
Ṣade: final
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45156
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45132
Qoph
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45134
Resh
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45155
Shin/Sin
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45138
Tav
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Letter - #45135
Punctuation
Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.31: Punctuation - #45140
