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Add MS 15251

Record Id:
032-003367266
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003367266
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100040684150.0x000007
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 15251
Title:
Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
448 folios
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15251 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1448
End Date:
1498
Date Range:
1448-1498
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Mosheh Aḳrish
Prince Augustus Frederick
Samuel ben ...
The Reverend Theodore Williams of Hendon
Theodore Williams
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 15251

'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible'

Contents

The Bible with masorah magna and parva, aka 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible'.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-448v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Miniature in colours and gold. f. 183r

Decorated initial-word panels.

ff. 13r-416r

Floral borders inhabited by animals, coloured.

ff. 49v-50r

Miniature in colours and gold. f. 183r

Decorated initial-word panels.

ff. 13r-416r

Floral borders inhabited by animals, coloured.

ff. 49v-50r

Colophon: מצוה לכל עברי הקות עלי ספר תורת נביאינו מסיני מתנה: \ חזון נביאיו ומשא נשיאי עם רעו בעתותם עמו באמונה: \ התמיד קריאה בו חקור יסודותיו יומם וליל הגות מקרא והאזנה: \ עיון יוני מעליו מאד הרחק הביא בבית האל כלב מחיר וזונה: \ תודה לכל משכיל הלול וליודעי דת עונג למשכילים לחוקרים מנה: \ הוד למחוקק רב אלי מניעו חן דבר ונעשה צוה ונענה: \ שמואל בן השר כמ"ר [נתן נ"ע? ...] משה כתב ספרו דקדק בחקויו פשפש בנקודיו אמת כאיש בינה: \ עקריש ספרדי עשה כאלה רבות חקק עלי קלף מקרא וגם משנה: \ זכות הנגיד הניעו במפעלו כושר הנענה עד הוא ובו ענה: \ יגדל שלמו עד הלד וצבא טוב יזכה כימי מועד ועת לחננה: \ בניו וגם זרועו אתו הן ישישו יראו פני גואל שוב האל ציונה: \ שלמה כתיבתו בשנת אנשים חמשת אלפים מאתים ושמנה: f. 429v
ff. 2r-12v
Title: Masoretic list
ff. 13r-41v
Title: Genesis
ff. 41v-65v
Title: Exodus
ff. 65v-81v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 81v-104r
Title: Numbers
ff. 104r-125r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 125r-138v
Title: Joshua
ff. 138v-151v
Title: Judges
ff. 151v-183r
Title: Samuel
ff. 183r-216v
Title: Kings
ff. 216v-239r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 239r-268v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 268v-294r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 294r-297r
Title: Hosea
ff. 297r-298v
Title: Joel
ff. 298v-301r
Title: Amos
ff. 301r-301v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 301v-302v
Title: Jonah
ff. 302v-304v
Title: Micah
ff. 304v-305v
Title: Nahum
ff. 305v-306v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 306v-307v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 307v-308r
Title: Haggai
ff. 308r-312v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 312v-313v
Title: Malachi
ff. 313v-347r
Title: Chronicles
ff. 347r-375r
Title: Psalms
ff. 375r-386r
Title: Job
ff. 386r-394v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 394v-398r
Title: Ruth
ff. 398r-396v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 396v-404r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 404r-408r
Title: Esther
ff. 408r-416r
Title: Daniel
ff. 416r-430r
Title: Ezra
ff. 430r-448r
Title: Masoretic lists

Physical Description

Vellum codex with text written in two columns and masoretic notes in upper and lower margins, as well as on the side margins. Main text in Sefardi square script, masoretic text in Sefardi semi-cursive.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 448 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180/185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

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

Unfoliated blank leaves after folio 12 and 448. Hebrew foliation from folio 13 starting with alef, that is, 1 until folio 124 (Hebrew folio 113). Hebrew foliation restarts on folio 125.

Collation

46 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii4 (folios 11-12b), iii-xii10 (folios 13-112), xiii12 (folios 113-124), xiv-xlii10 (folios 125-414), xliii8 (folios 415-422), xliv-10 (folios 423-432), xlveleven (folios 433-443), xlvisix (folios 444-[449]).

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Masorah magna in two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Mosheh Aḳrish: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 1448 or 1498 (folio 429v: date in the colophon has been partially erased and rewritten. Originally it may have been 5258, that is 1498, and not 5208, that is, 1448.)

Additions:

The margin of folios 2v-10r and 430v embodies the Song of Songs, Ruth, Psalms 1-5 and the beginnings of Psalm 89.

Binding

Post-1600. Red morocco binding with gauffered edges, the arms and motto of Theodore Williams on the front and back covers.

History

Origin: 1448-1498 Year not clear, either 1448 or 1498. Italy, N. E. (Ferrara?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Samuel ben ...: inscribed with his name in the colophon as a later correction (folio 429v). See comment in the sale catalogue of Bibliotheca Sussexiana, [Pettigrew_1827] , according to which this manuscript 'has been taken out of the Vatican by Junot.'

The Reverend Theodore Williams of Hendon, c. 1824: his motto Deus alit me ('God sustains me') above his armorial shield of a fess, 3 crescents, 3 birds, and a bird on top of the shield (front cover), and the monogram 'TW', and the motto (back cover).

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed, back flyleaf (iii)v; his sale 31 July 1844, lot 102: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v;, purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £34.10.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15251 (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. 61.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 36-41.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 115 [exhibition catalogue].

Bibliography

    [Pettigrew_1827] 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. London: Longman-39, 1827.

Funding of Cataloguing

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