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Title:
Perush Mishle
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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146 folios
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
Avram Shtern
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini
Hippolite of Ferrara
Immanuel ben Solomon, 1265-1330
Immanuel ben Solomon, 1265-1330
Laurentius Franguellus
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Add MS 11567

Perush Mishle

Contents

The commentary of ʿImanuʾel ben Shelomoh of Rome on Proverbs.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-146v
Title: Perush Mishle
Title: פרוש משלי
Author: Immanuel ben Solomon עמנואל בן שלמה, הרומי

References

[Romi_1981]

Physical Description

Vellum codex, small Sefardi square and semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of approximately 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 146 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 162 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 113 mm.
Foliation:

146 folios (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Catchwords at the end of each quire, cut away for the most part.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Watermarks on folio 2 and back flyleaf (i). The first watermark is a hand, the second watermark is a vase with a crescent at the top and a monogramm (CO?), similar to [Heawood_1950] 3603 (dated to 1646, England).

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Hard-point ruling is visible.

The bibilical verses are given in square script, accentuated and punctuated.

Hand(s)

Small Sefardi square and semi-cursive script, with visible Italian influences. Probably of 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600 covers. Rebound by BM/BL, with a new in-house bridge.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 146v); see [Popper_1969] 78.

Probably censored by Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan: inscribed 'Fra Hipp. Ferr 1601(?)' (active 1590-1609 in Cremona?) (folio 146v), see [Popper_1969] 18-19, 93.

Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (folio 146v), see [Popper_1969] 85-87.

Avram Shtern, inscribed in a note, folio 1r.

A partly erased owner's note, folio 1r.

Purchased of Rodd (?), perhaps Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): inscribed with a date of 13 April 1839, 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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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. 217.

Bibliography

    [Romi_1981] גולדשטיין, דוד, David Goldstein, and approximately approximately 1330 Immanuel ben Solomon. 'Tadpis Mi-Tokh Sefer Mishle : ʻim Perush ʻImanuʾel Ha-Romi / Divre Mavo Me-et Daṿid Goldshṭain.'ירושלים: בית הספרים הלאומי והאוניברסיטאי ; הוצאת ספרים ע"ש י"ל מאגנס, האוניברסיטה העברית, תשמ"א 1981, Yerushalayim, 1981.
    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

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