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Add MS 19946

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032-003371865
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Add MS 19946
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch by Menahem Recanati
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
192 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:
Adolphus Asher
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
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Add MS 19946

Commentary on the Pentateuch by Menahem Recanati

Contents

The commentary of Menahem Recanati on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-192v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th century רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין
ff. 1r-62r
Title: Genesis
ff. 62r-104v
Title: Exodus
ff. 104v-140r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 140r-164r
Title: Numbers
ff. 164r-192v
Title: Deuteronomy

References

Menaḥem mi-Reḳanaṭi,Perush ʿal ha-torah: ʿal derekh ha-emet(Ṿenetsiʾah 1523).

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 192 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 188 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

192 folios (+ 12 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 14 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Defective at the beginning.

Has a lacuna after folio 190.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 39

Written lines: 39

Flesh and hair side of the folio clearly distinguishable.

Extensive marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house binding of ivory leather. Gilt edges.

Spine title: 'R. Menachem Rekanati. Comment. in Pentateuchum. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Jure Emptionis. 19,946 Emptionis.

Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th 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 August 1854 (back flyleaf ii verso).

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19946 (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. 225.

Funding of Cataloguing

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