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Add MS 18686

Record Id:
032-003367044
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Add MS 18686
Title:
A fragment of a biblical commentary
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
57 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Elia Lattas
Fr. Alexander Longus Inquisitore de Montis regalis
M. Asher
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18686

A fragment of a biblical commentary

Contents

A fragment of an anonymous commentary on the Former Prophets.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-57v
Title: Perush
Title: פירוש

Many explanations of terms are given in an old French (12th century) see 4r, 16r, 19r, 21v.

ff. 3r-10v
Title: Joshua
ff. 10v-22v
Title: Judges
ff. 22v-27r
Title: Samuel

Only three folios with the commentary on 1Samuel and one folio on 2Samuel are preserved, folios 22v-27r.

ff. 27r-55r
Title: Kings

2Kings begin on folio 43r.

Physical Description

Paper and vellum codex, Sefardi (Provencal) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Mixed paper and vellum
Extent: 57 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

57 folios (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Irregular number of leaves in the quire.

Folios 1-2 and 56-57 constitute one large folio each, folded in two.

Condition

Has lacunae after folios: 10, 17, 21, 25, 26, 31, 46, 47, 50, 54.

Partially water-damaged. Several stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

One column, 25 regular lines.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Provencal) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 14th century.

Additions:

Folios 1r-2v and 56r-57v contain a notarial instrument of Bertrand de Rua of Toulouse, regarding debts held by various people towards Master Salomon Mosse, dated 7 December 1383 and 3 June 1383 respectively.

Elia Lattas: inscribed with a date of 17 August 1590, folio 3r.

Fr. Alexander Longus Inquisitore de Montis regalis: inscribed, folio 3r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Boxed.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century France, S. (Toulouse?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1857-05-24

M. Asher: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 May 1857: inscribed [58v].

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=Add_MS_18686 (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. 249.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL