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Record Id:
032-003367265
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Title:
Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
437 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1350-1374
Era:
CE
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Names:
Prince Augustus Frederick
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Add MS 15250

'Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible'

Contents

Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible') with masorah magna and parva

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-437v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך
Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3v-4r
2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, in colours and gold.

Masoretic lists in architectural frames, in colours and gold.

ff. 1v-3r

Masorah in micrographic design.

ff. 2v-3r
Title: Masoretic list
ff. 5v-32v
Title: Genesis
ff. 32v-56r
Title: Exodus
ff. 56r-72v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 72v-95v
Title: Numbers
ff. 95v-116v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 116v-131v
Title: Joshua
ff. 131v-145v
Title: Judges
ff. 145v-180r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 164v.

ff. 180r-215r
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folio 198r.

ff. 215r-239r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 239r-270v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 270v-297r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 297r-300v
Title: Hosea
ff. 300v-302r
Title: Joel
ff. 302r-305r
Title: Amos
ff. 305r-305r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 305r-306r
Title: Jonah
ff. 306r-308r
Title: Micah
ff. 308r-309r
Title: Nahum
ff. 309r-311r
Title: Habakuk
ff. 310r-311r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 311r-312r
Title: Hagai
ff. 312r-316v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 316v-317v
Title: Malachi
ff. 317v-319v
Title: Ruth
ff. 319v-346v
Title: Psalms
ff. 346v-358r
Title: Job
ff. 358r-367r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 367r-371v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 371v-373r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 373r-375v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 375v-384r
Title: Daniel
ff. 384r-388v
Title: Esther
ff. 388v-402r
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts on folio 394r.

ff. 402r-437r
Title: Chronicles

2Chron. starts on folio 417v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the third quarter of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 437 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 355 × 285 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 190 mm.
Foliation:

437 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated older paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and a paper flyleaf at the end), the recto of the first and the verso of the last flyleaf are covered in silk.

Collation

55 quires: i4 (folios 1-4), ii-liv8 (folios 5-428), lv10-1 (folios 429-437).

Quire numbering in Hebrew characters.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout. Ruling and pricking are visible.

Numerous decorations: 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, masoretic lists in architectural frames, masorah in micrographic design.

Masorah magna usually occupies two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin of each page. It is frequently written in the form of ornamental design, often that of a candlestick.

Exodus, Numbers, Jeremiah, Malachi, Psalms, Song of Songs, Esther and Ezra-Nehemiah begin a new column, and Leviticus and Proverbs begin a new leaf.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, third quarter of the 14th century, punctuated.

Additions:

Illegible Hebrew inscription (folio 1r).

Binding

Post-1600. 18th-century Italian red velvet binding on wood boards, with copper centrepiece and cornerpieces and remains of clasps.

Spine: 'Biblia Sacra Hebraica in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure. Emptionis. 15, 250.'

History

Origin: 1350-1374 3rd quarter of the 14th century Spain, N.E. (Catalonia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Note of birth: Joseph, the brother of a previous owner was born on 15 Nisan 5253 [1493] (folio 437r).

1844-07-31

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 31 July 1844, lot 101: inscribed (folio 437v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller for £41. English inscription, 19th century: 'The date assigned to this MS by Mr Pettigrew (Bibl. Suss. i. p. xii. No. 2) and marked on the binding is erroneous and arises from his having mistaken the note at the end of the volume for the date of the copy whereas it refers only to the birthday of the son of a former possessor of the MS' (folio [438v]).

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

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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. 53.
    Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Bibliotheca Sussexiana. A Descriptive Catalogue, Accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Contained in the Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in Kensington Palace, 2 vols (London: Longman, 1827-1839), I, part 1, pp. xii-xiv.
    Helen Rosenau, Vision of the Temple: The Image of the Temple of Jerusalem in Judaism and Christianity (London: Oreska Books, 1979), figs 34,35.
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 303.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 19; II, figs 310-323.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition', Art Bulletin, 84 (2002), 246-72 (p. 251).
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), pp. 145-164.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 52-53.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 143 [exhibition catalogue].

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