יחוס האבות: illustrated account of the Holy Places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato, 1598.

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

1 volume ([v], 16, [5] ff.); 93 x 154mm; irregular number of lines to a page, being mostly illuminated illustrations; vellum. Hebrew; unpointed. Worn, but fairly well-preserved. Bound in boards covered with brown marbled paper and with a quarter-leather spine. Reproduced in facsimile with English translation by Dr Roth as ‘The Casale Pilgrim’, London, 1929. For a fuller evaluation of this manuscript see E. Frojmovic in Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection [exhibition catalogue], Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, 1997, item 5.

• Date range: 1598
• Date: 1598
• Collection: Library (Special Collections)
• Physical Identifier: MS ROTH/220