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Arundel Or 2

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032-003311612
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Arundel Or 2
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
301 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1216
End Date:
1216
Date Range:
1216
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Śimḥah bar Yosef
Subjects:
Bible Pentateuch
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Arundel Or 2

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos in the margin, the Hafṭarot with the Five Scrolls in the margin, with punctuation and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-301v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot ṿe-megilot
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

The Pentateuch and the Hafṭarot have Targum in the margins.

The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and at the end, with many leaves missing after folios 8, 56 and 59.

Outer half of folio 218 is from another Ashkenazi manuscript (?), containing the last end of Numbers (from the middle of Num. 36:9 until the end of the book), and a scribal formula: חזק ונתחזק הסופר לא יזק לא היום לא לעול' עד שיעלה חמור בסולם. נשלם ספר במדבר הבורא יאמר לכל צרותינו עבר א'ב'כ'י'ר. Folio 87 is also an addition probably from the same Ashkenazi manuscript.

There is a similarity in punctuation and accents to MS Harley 5683 (George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 69.), Cf. [Ginsburg_1880] 7.

Colophon: מניין פסוקי מאלה שמות אלף ומאה וחמשים זה סימן י' צ' ח' ק' בן שמחה ביום תתקעו מפרט. f. 114r-v
Colophon: חזק ונתחזק שמחה ב"ר יוסף f. 271v
ff. 1r-56v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters: 1:1-6:20; 14:10-21:9; 50:4-50:26

ff. 57r-114v
Title: Exodus

Missing chapters: 3:18-5:8

ff. 115r-156v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 157r-219r
Title: Numbers
ff. 219r-271v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 271v-301v
Title: Hafṭarot (of the weekly pericopes)

Imperfect at the end.

ff. 271v-274r
Title: Song of Songs

Given in the margin.

ff. 274r-278v
Title: Ruth

Given in the margin.

ff. 278v-284v
Title: Lamentations

Given in the margin.

ff. 288v-300r
Title: Esther

Given in the margin.

ff. 300v-301v
Title: Ecclesiastes

Given in the margin.

Breaks off with chapter 2:20.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 301 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 121 mm.
Foliation:

301 folios (+ 2 modern unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). An earlier foliation in ink reflects the lacunae in the text, the latest foliation in pencil does not.

Collation

Extant quires are mostly of 8 leaves each.

Quires marked by catchwords at the end, in the middle of lower margins (only few of them has been preserved).

Condition

Parchment of poor quality with a lot of holes.

Many leaves are soiled and mutilated.

Numerous leaves have been amended, patched with paper (watermark on folio 67 with the word beginning 'Green...').

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Hair-side and flesh-side of folios distinguishable.

Complete ruling by hard point, bifolium by bifolium on hair-side of folios.

Pricking in outer margins only, quire by quire on verso.

Each of the books of the Pentateuch commences a new leaf and Haftarot begin a new column.

The first words of each pericope in the Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls written in larger characters.

The beginning of each pericope marked by פ פ פ.

Last line written within ruling.

Main text in two columns, commentary in outer and lower margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French?) square script of the 13th century. Śimḥah bar Yosef: inscribed with his name on folio 271v: חזק ונתחזק שמחה בר יוסף. The word Shelomoh is decorated on folio 276v.

f. 87, 218 These two folios are probably from a different manuscript, written by another hand.

Decoration

A small drawing of a dog in the outer margin on folio 276v.

Carmina figurata on folios 113v-114v, 217v-218v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house, with the emblem of Bibliotheca Arundeliana as centrepiece.

Spine: 'Pentateuchus Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Ar. Or. 2.'

History

Origin: 1216 France?

Provenance and Acquisition

The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 300r).

Purchased by the British Museum from theRoyal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 68.
    [Kennicott_1776] 129

Bibliography

    [Ginsburg_1880] Christian D Ginsburg (Christian David). 'The Massorah Compiled from Manuscripts, Alphabetically and Lexically Arranged by C. D. Ginsburg המסורה על פי כתבי יד עתיקים אשר נקבצו ... ביד כריסטיאן דוד גינצבורנ.'London-85, 1880.
    [Kennicott_1776] Benjamin Kennicott. 'Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum : Cum Variis Lectionibus / Edidit Benjaminus Kennicott.'Oxonii: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1776.

Funding of Cataloguing

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