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Record Id:
032-003367024
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Add MS 26924
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
280 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Daṿid ʿAzriʾel
Domenico Irosolimitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Tibon, Yehudah, 1119-1191
Ibn Tibon, Yehudah, 1119-1191
Kara, Joseph ben Simon, 1065-1135
Kara, Joseph ben Simon, 1065-1135
Matatyah ben Daṿid
Mosheh
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Add MS 26924

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary, various commentaries on the Five Scrolls and Sefer mivḥar ha-peninim by Ibn Gabirol.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-280v
Title: Torah ῾im perush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם פרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

The portions of the Hebrew text which are commented upon, or its headings and introductory formulas, are overlined with red ink.

Scribe's name Mosheh has been marked at the beginning of some lines, e.g. 170v, 260v, 261v.

ff. 1r-60r
Title: Genesis
ff. 60r-117v
Title: Exodus
ff. 117v-153r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 153r-191v
Title: Numbers
ff. 191v-228r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 228r-230v
Title: Commentary on Ruth (similar to Rashi)
Filiation: Compare to Harley 7621, folio 400r, (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. 234..
ff. 230v-242r
Title: Rashi's commentary on the Song of Songs
ff. 242r-255r
Title: Rashi's commentary on Ecclesiastes
ff. 255r-260r
Title: Commentary on Lamentations
Author: Kara, Joseph קרא, יוסף בן שמעון
ff. 260r-264v
Title: Commentary on Esther

Without author's name.

Incipit: ויהי ... כשבת ... כשנתיישב במלכותו: שראה שנתקיימה מלכותו בידו: דהיינו בשנת שלש שכבר הוחזק ובטוח במלכות: f. 260r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 280 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

280 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quire.

Hebrew numbering on the first and the last page of the quire.

Condition

Some pages are badly mutilated, e.g. 263r, 263v.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling are visible.

Several corrections supplied in the margins.

Hand(s)

Italian square (for the main text) and semi-cursive (for the commentary) script, not punctuated. Mosheh: his name inscribed in several acrostics, e.g. folio 170v, 160v, 261v.

ff. 2r-4v
due to a later hand.

Additions:

Doodle page separating the commentary on the Five Scrolls and Sefer mivḥar ha-peninim, folio 263v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

A certificate of a shoḥet named Matatyah ben Daṿid, of Sforno, signed by his teacher, Daṿid ʿAzriʾel, is supplied at the beginning of Sefer mivḥar ha-peninim, folio 264r, dated 9 Sivan (5)300.

Giovanni Domenico Carretto: Italian censor (fl. 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 280r); see [Popper_1969] 84.

Domenico Irosolimitano (fl. 1575 - 1624): inscribed with his name, 1592 (folio 280v); see [Popper_1969] 62-74.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile: his manuscript no. 32; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153), folio [282v].

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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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. 175.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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