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Record Id:
032-003313815
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Add MS 10455
Title:
Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, Five Scrolls, the Hafṭarot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
460 folios (ii+460+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10455 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1310
End Date:
1311
Date Range:
1310-1311
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Shelomoh ha-Naḳdan
Shimshon ben Ya῾aḳov Vivant
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Add MS 10455

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, Five Scrolls, the Hafṭarot

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, the Five Scrolls, the Hafṭarot and parts of the Prophets, with punctuation and accents, provided with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-460v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

The Pentateuch has Hebrew text and Targum in alternate verses.

The manuscript has colophons of both the scribe and the naḳdan, folio 460v.

Colophon: אני שמשון הסופר ב"ר יעקב זצ"ל המכונה ויוואנט החוקק חותמות כתבתי זה חמש תרגום חמש מגילות והפטרות ואיוב וירמיה. שבח ל ברא העולם ביה. יום ד' פרשה ברכה כ"ו בתשרי שנת ה' אלפים שבעים ואחד לפרט לר' מר<ד>כי ב"ר צדיק השם יזכהו לו ולבניו ולבני בניו עד סוף העולם. אמן אמן סלה. חזק. הסופר לא יזק. לא היום ולא לעולם. f. 460v
Colophon: בריך רחמנא דסיען. חזק ונתחזק שלמה הנקדן משונא. ותשלם כל המלאכה יום ה' בי"ד לחדש כסלו שנת ע"ב לפרט. f. 460v
ff. 1v-86r
Title: Genesis
ff. 86v-161v
Title: Exodus
ff. 162r-211r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 211v-284v
Title: Numbers
ff. 284v-348v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 349r-351v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 352v-354v
Title: Ruth
ff. 355r-358r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 358v-364v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 365r-372r
Title: Esther
ff. 372v-422v
Title: Hafṭarot of the weekly pericopes, of the feasts and fasts.
ff. 423r-441r
Title: Job
ff. 441r-441v
Title: Jeremiah

Only chapters: 1:1-23:6; 31:2-31:20.

ff. 441v-460v
Title: Isaiah

Only chapters 34 and 35.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 460 folios (ii+460+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 445 × 330 mm.
Dimensions (written): 315 × 230 mm.
Foliation:

460 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Extant quires are mostly of 8 leaves each.

Quires marked by decorative catchwords on the last page, but only few of them have been preserved.

Condition

Many pages have trimmed margins.

Water damage at edges.

Finger grease, stains, wax, etc.

A few areas of mould mottling.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and page by page plummet ruling.

Graphic fillers at the end of the lines.

Large square initial words.

Last line of text written within ruling.

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

The beginning of each pericope marked by פ פ פ.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 14th century. Shimshon ben Ya῾aḳov Vivant: inscribed as the main scribe in the colophon, folio 460v. Shelomoh ha-Naḳdan: inscribed as the punctuator in the colophon on folio 460v.

Binding

Pre-1600. Thick brown leather, blind tooled boards, with bosses. Embroidered velour doublures. Boxed.

Spine: Biblia Hebraica. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 10,455. Plut.

Accompanying Material

A paper quarto is prefixed to the manuscript, containing a partly Hebrew and partly German letter addressed by the leaders of Dusseldorf to the community in Essen, asking for help on behalf of the Jews of Lissa, whose houses and possessions were destroyed by fire. The letter is dated the fifth day of week, 10 Ṭevet 528 (1768). Outside address: Herrn Abraham Moses, vornehmer Handelss Jude in Essen.

History

Origin: 1310-1311 The main text: 26 Tishri 5071 (29 September 1310); punctuation and masorah: 14 Kisleṿ (5)072 (3 December 1311). Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Shimshon ben Ya῾aḳov, 'Vivant', inscription by him on folio 460v: אני שמשון הסופר בר' יעקב ז'צ'ל' המכונה ויוואנט החוקק חותמות כתבתי זה החמש תרגום חמש מגילות והפטרות ואיוב וירמיה שבח לברא העולם ביה: יום ד' פרשה ברכה כ'ו' בתשרי שנת ה' אלפים שבעים ואחד לפרט לר' מרכי בר צדוק השם יזכהו לו ולבניו ולבני בניו עד סוף כל העולם: אמן אמן סלה: חזק הסופר לא יזק לא היום ולא לעולם:

1836-05

Purchased of Rodd (?), May 1836 (inner front cover); perhaps Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849).

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. 79.

Funding of Cataloguing

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