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Title:
Perush Mishle
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
87 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Levi ben Gershom, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician and physician, 1288-1344
Thomas Rodd the younger
Yehudah ben Shelomoh Yedidyah
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Perush Mishle

Contents

Summary of Contents: The commentary of Gersonides (Leṿi ben Gershom aka Ralbag) on the book of Proverbs, with the punctuated and accentuated biblical text.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-87v
Title: Perush Mishle
Title: פרוש משלי
Author: Levi ben Gershom       לוי בן גרשם
Explicit: ובכאן נשלם ספר הביאור ת'ל'ח' חזק ונתחזק ביראת חזק ולעד לא נזק אמן. f. 85v

Physical Description

Vellum codex, Italian (Ashkenazi style) square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 87 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

87 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end; folios 1-2 and 87 are paper).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 37

Written lines: 37

Punctuated and accentuated biblical text is embedded.

Hard-point ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian (Ashkenazi style) square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 15th century.

Additions:

Folios 3r to 5v contain three poetical elegies.

Folio 6v contains a list of accents of the three poetical books.

Binding

Post-1600. brown tooled leather.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy (Ascoli?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yehudah ben Shelomoh Yedidyah, inscribed in the contract of sale to Eliezer ben Eliyahu of Aquila, witnessed by Menaḥem ben Eliyahu of Ascoli and Yeḳutiel ben Mosheh of Sulmona, folio 86v, with a date of 226 (1465).

A former owner's seal, folio 3r: Pandulphi de Ricasolio Baronibus Cano. Flor., dated 1654.

1841-12-04

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), purchased through him on 04 December 1841, inscribed (folio 87v).

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_12209 (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. 222.

Funding of Cataloguing

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