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Add MS 15423
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
143 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15423 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1441
End Date:
1467
Date Range:
1441-1467
Era:
CE
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Names:
Prince Augustus Frederick
The Reverend Theodore Williams of Hendon
Thomas Rodd the younger
Thomas Thorpe
Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Ovadyah ben Daṿid
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Add MS 15423

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentatuech, with vowel-points and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-143v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew

Decorated initial-word panels in colours and gold accompanied by partial foliate borders at the beginnings of the books. f. 1r, 35v, 65v, 87r, 117r

Decorated initial-word panels with pen-flourishing inhabited by animals, masks, human figures, floral motifs in violet and red ink, at the beginning of the parashiyot. f. 4r, 7r, 10r, 13v, 15v, 18r, 21r, 24v, 27r, 30v, 38v, 41v, 44v, 47v, 49v, 52r, 54r, 57r, 60r, 63r, 68v, 70v, 73r, 74v, 77r, 79r, 80v, 83v, 84v, 90v, 94v, 97v, 100v, 103r, 105r, 107v, 111v, 114r, 119v, 123r, 126v, 129v, 132v, 135v, 138v, 139v, 140v, 142v

Coat of arms included into the border erased and overpainted decorated with foliate scroll. f. 1r

No masoretic rubrics are found in the manuscript, except for several instances of centre-marks and קרי.

ff. 1r-35r
Title: Genesis
ff. 35r-65v
Title: Exodus
ff. 65v-87r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 87r-117r
Title: Numbers
ff. 117r-143v
Title: Deuteronomy

References

Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 114 [exhibition catalogue].
Nurit Pasternak, 'Together and Apart: Hebrew Manuscripts as Testimonies to Encounters of Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-century Florence: the Makings, the Clients, Censorship' [Hebrew] (Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Senate of the Hebrew University, 2009), p. 255.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 34-35.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 143 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

15 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii10 (folios 11-20), iii10 (folios 21-30), iv10 (folios 31-40), v10 (folios 41-50), vi10 (folios 51-60), vii10 (folios 61-70), viii10 (folios 71-80), ix10 (folios 81-90), x10 (folios 91-100), xi10 (folios 101-110), xii10 (folios 111-120), xiii10 (folios 121-130), xiv10 (folios 131-140), xv4-1 (folios 141-143).

Catchwords in the middle of lower margin.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Visible complete ruling.

Last line written outside ruling.

Graphic fillers at the end of the lines.

Flesh side and hair side distinguishable. Quires start with flesh side.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century. Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Ovadyah ben Daṿid of Forli (Gaio di Servadio), active in Florence 1441- approximately 1470.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather, tooled, with the arms and motto of Theodore Williams on the front and back covers.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,423. Plut.'

History

Origin: 1441-1467 On the dating, see Pasternak 2009, p. 255. Italy, Central (Florence)

Provenance and Acquisition

The Reverend Theodore Williams of Hendon, (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 'T.W.' and the motto (back cover).

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his bookplate, front flyleaf (i)r; his sale, January 18, 1844, lot 365; purchased by Thorpe.

Thomas Thorpe: purchased by him for £25 4s: annotated sale catalogue in the History and Classics Department.

Purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): inscribed 'purchased of Thos. Rodd, 18 January 1845': inscribed, back flyleaf (iii)v; one of six Hebrew manuscripts acquired from the Duke of Sussex.

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_15423 (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. 86.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 114 [exhibition catalogue].

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