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032-003367271
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Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
295 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4709 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1486
End Date:
1486
Date Range:
1486
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham Farissol of Avignon
Salomon da Costa
Shemu᾿el of Pula
Yeḥiel Foah
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Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch with the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Job and the Hafṭarot, with punctuation and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-295v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות
Colophon: אני אברהם פריצול י"ץ בכמ"ר מרדכי פריצול י"ץ מאויניון כתבתי הספר הלז אשר בו תורת משה ע"ה וה' מגלות ותלים משלי ואיוב והפטרות כל השנה כלה אל החשוב כמ"ר שמואל מפולא יזיי"א השם יחנהו ויזכהו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו לקרוא ולהגות בזה ובשאר כתבי הקדש לעד אמ'. והשלמתיו פה סירמיני גליל מאנטובא ביום צום אסתר המלכה שנת "אמר" גואלך ה' לאלף הששי. ולאל לבדו התהלה אשר עזרני עד כה. יתברך שמו אמן. f. 293v
ff. 1v-34v
Title: Genesis
ff. 34v-64r
Title: Exodus
ff. 64r-85v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 85v-115v
Title: Numbers
ff. 116r-143v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 144r-146r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 146v-148v
Title: Ruth
ff. 149r-152r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 152r-157r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 157v-164r
Title: Esther
ff. 164v-208v
Title: Psalms
ff. 209r-222v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 223r-239v
Title: Job
ff. 240r-293v
Title: Hafṭarot for the whole year

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 295 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 226 × 156 mm.
Dimensions (written): 154 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

295 folios (+ 6 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

30 quires of 10 leaves, except from the last quire which has 6 leaves extant.

Quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages, and marked with catchwords on the last page.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 28

Written lines: 26 28

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical (page by page) plummet ruling and horizontal (page by page) ink ruling.

Graphic filler at the end of line. Last written line within ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Deuteronomy, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Psalms, Proverbs and Hafṭarot commence a new leaf.

Initial word of each book written in larger letters.

Beginning of a pericope in the Pentateuch marked by פרש', accompanied with a small pen and ink design.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 15th century, punctuated and accentuated. Scribe: Abraham Farissol [of Avignon], son of Mordekhai Farissol, inscribed with his name in colophon, folio 293v.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Morocco binding, gold-tooled.

Spine: 'Codex Biblicus Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Ex Dono Sol. da Costa. 4709.'

History

Origin: 1486 Italy, C. (Sermide, Mantua)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yeḥiel Foah, inscribed with his name on folio 293v: זה החומש עם ההפטרות ותלים משלי איוב וה' מגילות של היקר כמר' יחיאל פואה יצו' אחרי חלוק האחי' ... ה' למען חסדיו יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות אכיר'.

Partially erased Hebrew inscription, folio 294v, with tan oath and the names of five witnesses, dated 251 (1491).

Shemu᾿el of Pula(?), inscribed with his name on folio 1v, with a list of his sons (faded ink).

Anonymous censorial note is given on folio 294v: Io fra luigi lo uidi del 1599.

1719

Salomon da Costa, inscribed with his name on the front and back cover of the binding, in gold letters and ornamental design, dated 1719, London.

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_4709 (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. 95.

Funding of Cataloguing

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