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Title:
Gersonides' Commentary on the Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
396 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Levi ben Gershom, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician and physician, 1288-1344
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Gersonides' Commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

The commentary of Gersonides (Leṿi ben Gershom aka Ralbag) on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-396v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Leṿi ben Gershom, 1288-1344 לוי בן גרשם, 1288-1344
ff. 1r-79r
Title: Genesis

Starts with an introduction.

ff. 79r-165r
Title: Exodus
ff. 165r-280r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 280r-325v
Title: Numbers
ff. 325v-396v
Title: Deuteronomy

Breaks off at the end due to a mutilated folio.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 396 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 324 × 222 mm.
Foliation:

396 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Last folios mutilated.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Visible vertical ruling.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Probably of the 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Levi ben Gerson. Comm. on the Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,069.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century France

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 174: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153).

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_27069 (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. 220.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

BL