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Record Id:
032-003371851
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Add MS 19665
Title:
Pentateuch with commentary
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
232 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19665 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19665

Pentateuch with commentary

Contents

The Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-232v
Title: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם פרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)
ff. 1r-46r
Title: Genesis

Begins with parashah Lekh lekha, Gen. 12:1–17:27.

ff. 46r-113v
Title: Exodus
Explicit: ונשלם ספר ואלה שמות לאל תהלות רוממות. f. 113v
ff. 114r-155r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 155r-219r
Title: Numbers
ff. 219r-232v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 232 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 233 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

232 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

8 quires of 8 leaves each.

Quires marked with catchwords at the end, some of which have been trimmed.

Condition

Some pages heavily stained.

Ink partly fading.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Watermarks on folio 2 and back flyleaf (i)v. The first watermark is a hand, the second watermark is a vase with a crescent at the top and a monogramm (CO?), similar to [Heawood_1950] 3603 (dated to 1646, England).

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.

A number of smaller and greater omissions from text and commentary subsequently supplied in the margins by various hands.

Hand(s)

Sefardi and Italian semi-cursive script, not punctuated, of the 14th century.

ff. 1r-121v
Italian semi-cursive script of 14th century.

ff. 122r-232v
Sefardi semi-cursive script of 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'R.Solomon Jarchi. Commentarius in Pentateuchum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,665.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 12 November 1853: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_19665 (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. 174.

Bibliography

    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL