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032-003367262
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Title:
Former and Latter Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
317 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1293
End Date:
1293
Date Range:
1293
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Barukh ben Petaḥyah
Binyamin ben Yoʾav min ha-῾Anaṿim
Eliezer Navaro de Ferrara
Luge Navaro
Luigi da Bologna
Shelomoh Yoshuʿa of Modena
Yeḥi᾿el Petaḥyah
Yitsḥaḳ Ḥazan of Furmicino
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 14760

Former and Latter Prophets

Contents

Former and Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-315v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Colophon: נשלם ביום ג' פרשת ויחי בשלשה עשר יום לירח טבת שנת ג"ן לפרט. ב"ן לכו"א ע"י. f. 315r
Colophon: כבודך ה'. בנימן המנקד חזק ב"ר יואב נבתוי"א ממשפחת הענוים. בנלכואע"י. f. 282r
Colophon: בנימן המנקד חזק ב"ר יואב נ"ע ממשפחת הענווים. כבודך ה'. f. 315r
ff. 2r-22v
Title: Joshua
ff. 22v-42v
Title: Judges
ff. 42v-93v
Title: Samuel
ff. 93v-149v
Title: Kings
ff. 150r-189r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 189r-238v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 239r-282r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 283r-288r
Title: Hosea
ff. 288r-290r
Title: Joel
ff. 290r-294r
Title: Amos
ff. 294v-295r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 295r-296v
Title: Jonah
ff. 296v-299v
Title: Micah
ff. 300r-301r
Title: Nahum
ff. 301r-302v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 302v-304v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 304v-306r
Title: Haggai
ff. 306r-313r
Title: Zechariah
ff. 313r-315r
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 317 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 327 × 227 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Too tightly bound.

Condition

Folios 314-317 partly stained.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26 27

Written lines: 25 26

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Visible complete ruling by hard-point, bifolium by bifolium (on hair side).

Graphic fillers at the end of line, last written line within ruling. Truncated mem.

The first word of each book is written in large ornamental letter, with addition of a pen and ink design in Kings.

Omitted words are supplied and faulty readings are corrected in the margin.

The beginning and the end of Haftarot are marked in the margin by a later hand.

Fine Italian parchment, ruled on the hair-side with a hard point. No pricking is visible due to trimmed margins.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 13th century (at variance with production area). Finished and punctuated by a different hand than the first books in the manuscript. Binyamin ben Yoʾav min ha-῾Anaṿim: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 315r.

ff. 2r-80v

ff. 81r-317v

Additions:

Folios 1r-1v and 315v-317v: doodle pages.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. MS. In Membranis. Anno MCCXCIII. Mus Brit. Jure Emptionis. 14,760. Plut.'

History

Origin: 1293 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Yitsḥaḳ Ḥazan of Furmicino and Shelomoh Yoshuʿa of Modena: inscribed in a contract of sale on folio 317v, with a date of  23 Tamuz 5355 (30 June 1595), at Ferrara.

Yeḥi᾿el Petaḥyah and Barukh ben Petaḥyah: inscribed several times on the flyleaves.

Luge Navaro, son of Eliezer Navaro de Ferrara: inscribed on folio 316v.

Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition (active 1590-1609): inscribed with his name as censor, with a date of 1599, folio 315r, see [Popper_1969] 104.

1844

Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss in 1844, folio [318v] .

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_14760 (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. 124.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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