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Add MS 14759
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch by Levi ben Gershom (Gershonides)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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481 folios
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1429
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1429
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1429
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Names:
Antonio Franc. Enriques
Levi ben Gershom, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician and physician, 1288-1344
Moses Panzi of Ricanati
Natana᾿el ben Neḥemiah Kaspi
Yo᾿el ben Shim῾on Feibush
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Add MS 14759

Commentary on the Pentateuch by Levi ben Gershom (Gershonides)

Contents

The Commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-480r
Author: Levi ben Gershom לוי בן גרשם
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פירוש התורה
Colophon: ואני הצעיר באלפי נתנאל בן נחמיה כספי כתבתיו לעצמי פה אוינייון והיתה השלמתו בשמנה עשר לירח כסלו של שנת מאה ותשעים לפרט האלף הששי לבריאת עולם המקום ברחמיו יזכני להגות בו אני וזרעי וזרע זרעי ונזכה למות בבית הגואל אל גולת אריאל עם כל ישראל חברים אמן אמן. f. 480r

Numerous carmina figurata. f. 63r, 76v, 102v, 103r, 121r, 125v, 185r, 185v, 186v, 187r, 307r

4 added full-page drawings in grisaille, of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Temple implements

ff. 1v-3r

Authorial colophons of Gershonides copied by the scribe: 1 Elul [50]90 (1330) (217r); 23 Tevet 5098 (1337) (392r); 23 Shvat 5098 (1338), Orange (480r).

ff. 1r-104v
Title: Genesis
ff. 104v-218v
Title: Exodus
ff. 218v-335r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 335r-392v
Title: Numbers
ff. 392v-481r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Vellum codex of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 481 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

481 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern and 1 older paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); folio 481 is an older paper flyleaf.

Collation

61 quires: i2 (folios 1-2), ii-lxi8 (folios 3-480).

Hebrew characters are used instead of catchwords.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Gilt edges.

Ruling is visible.

Between folios 216 and 217: one unfoliated blank leaf.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Provencal) semi-cursive script of 15th century. Parts of biblical verses given in square script, punctuated.

ff. 1r-3v
- contemporary Ashkenazi square script, unpunctuated.

Additions:

4 added full-page drawings in grisaille, of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Temple implements (1v-3r), by Yo᾿el ben Shim῾on Feibush; cf his illumination of the so-called Washington Haggadah, [Stern_2011] .

Inscriptions, partially illegible (16th century) (481r).

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1429 Quire i2 was probably added in the 1460s. France, S. (Avignon)

Provenance and Acquisition

Natana᾿el ben Neḥemiah Kaspi: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Avignon, 18 Kislev 5190 (1429 CE) (480r).

Censored by Antonio Franc. Enriques: inscribed with his name, Archiv d’Urbino, 1687, below it oval stamp perhaps of the Archiv (folio 480v); see [Popper_1969] 44.

Moses Panzi of Ricanati: inscribed with his name, undated (1r).

Payne & Foss, London booksellers: purchased by the British Museum from them in 1844: inscribed, folio 481v.

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. 219.

Bibliography

    [Stern_2011] David Stern, and active 15th century Joel ben Simeon. 'The Washington Haggadah / Copied and Illustrated by Joel Ben Simeon ; Introduction and Translation by David Stern ; Introduction by Katrin Kogman-Appel.'Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

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