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Add MS 19776

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Add MS 19776
Title:
Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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252 folios
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1390
End Date:
1396
Date Range:
1390-1396
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CE
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Names:
Alexander ben Solomon Zalman Kohen
Gershom ben Judah
M. Ashkenazi
Samuel ben Abraham of Molerstadt
Simhah ben Samuel ha-Levi
Simḥah bar Shemu᾿el ha-Levi
Yeḳutiʼel ben Yitsḥaḳ Naḳdan
יקותיאל בן יצחק נקדן
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Add MS 19776

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pentateuch, Five Scrolls, Hafṭarot accompanied by masorah magna, masorah parva and grammatical treatises (aka the 'Coburg Pentateuch').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-252v
Title: Torah, megilot  ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות
Language(s): Hebrew

The Pentateuch was punctuated by R. Samuel bar Abraham of Molerstadt : mentioned in a marginal note as the punctuator (folio 96r); inscribed with his name in a colophon as the punctuator who punctuated the codex 'until this point' within six weeks, Sunday, beginning of Kislev, folio 112v; mentioned as punctuator of the Pentateuch who punctuated it in Babenberg, colophon at the end of the codex, dated 1396, folio 252r.

The Five Scrolls, the Haftarot and the grammatical treatise were punctuated by R.Gershom bar Judah in Rödelsee, colophon at the end of the codex, dated 1396, folio 252r.

Colophon: f. 252r חזק ונתחזק הסופר' ועל יוזק בעל הספר' ובעל המלאכה יזכה לביאת גואל' והנקדנים יתברכו מאת צורי אל' זה ספר חומש עברי וחמש מגילות והפטרות וספר דקדוק הקריאה ועין הקורא כתב ר' שמחה בר שמואל הלויוגמר בעיר קובורקור' שמואל בר אברהםנקד ה' חומשים בעיר בעיר בבנבערק ור' גרשם בר יהודה נקד חמש מגילות והפטרות וספר הדקדוק ועין הקורא בכפר רוטלזי'והכל נשלם ונגמר בעזרת מגן ישראל ביום א' בראש חדש כסליו שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וחמשים ושש שנים לפרט בשנת הכ פשוטה ביום א' לפרשת ויברכני יהוה'ושלי זה הספר מאיר בר עובדיה המכונה הצעיר ליברטרוט ושמי ושמות יגיעי המלאכה הסופר והנקדנים רמזתי וכללתי למעלה בשיר משקלי' וכשם שזכני האל יתברך שמו להגיה לכתוב ולגמור כן יזכני ואת זרעי אחרי לשמור ולעשות כל הכתוב בו כי אז אצליח בכל דרכי ואז אשכיל'

4 decorated initial-word panels with foliate motifs and gold letters. f. 1v 28v 117v 132v

Two micrographical illustrations of masorah. f. 7r 28v

4 initial-word panels inhabited by dragons and hybrids. f. 55r, 73r, 96v, 170r

1 initial word inhabited by hybrids and animals. f. 190r

4 decorated initial words. f. 119v 121v 124r 128r

3 miniatures at the end of the biblical books. f. 54v 72v, 96r

1 decoration embedded into the body of the text. f. 72r

1 marginal drawing depicting a deer. f. 55v

ff. 1v-28v
Title: Genesis
ff. 28v-55r
Title: Exodus
ff. 55r-73r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 73r-96v
Title: Numbers
ff. 96v-117v
Title: Deuteronomy

Missing chapter 12:17 (in part) to the end.

ff. 117v-119v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 119v-121v
Title: Ruth
ff. 121v-124r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 124r-128r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 128r-132v
Title: Esther
ff. 132v-170r
Title: Hafṭarot for the whole year.
ff. 170r-237v
Title: ʻEn ha-kore
Title: עין הקורא
Author: Yeḳutiʼel ben Yitsḥaḳ Naḳdan יקותיאל בן יצחק נקדן

A grammatico-masoretic treatise on the Pentateuch, Esther and Lamentations.

Incipit: ברוך יי' אלהי ישראל אשר נתן למשרתו יקותיאל עין רואה ואזן שומעת' לשון למודים לדעת' לעשות עבדת מלאכת הקדש' ודברים עתיקים לחדש'.
Filiation: 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. 968.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 237v-252v
Title: A collection of several pieces on masorah, punctuation and accents.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 252 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

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

Foliation in pencil can be found also in the outer lower corner of recto sides, hardly visible.

Collation

32 quires of mostly 8 leaves, apart from two consisting of 6 leaves.

Vertical catchwords at the end of quires, decorated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Double pricking for major lines, in outer and inner margins, quire by quire.

Complete ruling by plummet (each bifolium on both sides).

Last written line within ruling.

Graphic filler at the end of line.

Masorah magna often written in the form of figures, animals and patterns; otherwise it occupies three lines in the upper margin and two in the lower margin.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 13th century; punctuation provided by two different hands. R. Simḥah bar Shemu᾿el ha-Levi: mentioned in the colophon at the end of the Pentateuch, Monday 21, Adar Sheni, 1395, folio 169v; also mentioned as scribe in the colophon at the end of the codex, Coburg, 1396, folio 252r; the word שמחה is decorated several times (e.g. 17v, 112v, 126v, 131v, 132r, 154v, 184v).

Simhah ben Samuel ha-Levi- scribe, Samuel ben Abraham of Molerstadt- punctuator of the Pentateuch, Gershom ben Judah- punctuator of the rest of the codex.

Additions:

Illegible Hebrew inscriptions, folio 1r.

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,776.'

History

Origin: 1390-1396 Germany (Coburg, Bamberg, Roedelsee)

Provenance and Acquisition

Obituary entries: death of a later owner's parents (Bittingen, 1535, and Wallerstein, 1539) (folio 252r).

Alexander ben Solomon Zalman Kohen: inscribed with his name, 1750, folio 1r.

Coburg f. 252 ; his name and the year [] in acrostic f. 117 .

M. Ashkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him through D. Nutt in April 1854, inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1854-04

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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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. 80.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 114.
    Jürgen Erdmann, 'Der Coburg-Pentateuch, ein neuentdecktes Dokument der mittelalterlichen Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte Coburgs: zum Codex Ms Add 19776 in der Bibliothek des Britischen Museums in London', Jahrbuch der Coburger Landesstiftung, 25 (1980), 85-110.
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 42.

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