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Or 11899

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Or 11899
Title:
Biblical commentary by Abraham ibn Ezra
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1306
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1306
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1306
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Names:
Elḥanan ben Elḥanan
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Yehudah Eli῾ezer ῾Azariah
Yehudah ben Yeḳutiel
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11899

Biblical commentary by Abraham ibn Ezra

Contents

A biblical commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-269v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Colophon: אברך את ה' אשר יעצנו./ להתחיל פי' אברהם הדריכני./ חזקני להשלימו וה' עזרני./ נצח ותפארת ישראל בעודני./ נא חסדך ואמתך ינחמוני./ חסילו פי' חמשה חומשי תורה אשר פירשם רבי אברהם אבן עזרא זצוק"ל ונשלם על ידי אלחנן ביר' אלחנן זצ"ל וכתבתיו למורי ר' יהודה גיסי ביר' יקותיאל מב"ע הילבהווזעסכה"א ונשלם בשנת חמשת אלפים וששים וששה בירח אייר. f. 268r
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: (i)+269+(i)
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 136 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 94 mm.
Foliation:

269 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated modern paper and one 1 older vellum flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each. marked by decorated catchwords at the end.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Occasional signs of slight damp entry.

First and last few leaves very damaged by damp, mould and worming, repaired and infilled before rebinding

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Complete ruling by hard-point (bifolium by bifolium) visible.

Traces of pricking on the outer margins only.

Last written line outside ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of leaves distinguishable.

Additional marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Elḥanan ben Elḥanan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 268r.

ff. 1v-51r
and
ff. 51v-269v
due to two different but contemporary hands.

Additions:

Additional notes ('havdalot'), folios 268v-269v.

Binding

BM in-house. Old leather binding of this volume (blind-tooled, faded script in the inner side) is separately boxed (shelfmark: Or 11899*).

Spine: 'Abraham Ibn Ezra. Longer Commentary On Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11899.'

History

Origin: 1306 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Yehudah ben Yeḳutiel (scribe's brother-in-law): inscribed in the colophon, folio 268r.

Yehudah Eli῾ezer ῾Azariah: inscribed, folio 1r.

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11899 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 154., vol. IV.

Funding of Cataloguing

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