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032-003371867
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Add MS 19970
Title:
Meyuḥas ben Eliyah's 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:
257 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1469
End Date:
1469
Date Range:
1469
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Eliyahu ben Elḳanah of Nikopolis
M. Netter
Meyuhas ben Eliyahu, fl 12th century
Meyuhas ben Eliyahu, fl 12th century
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Add MS 19970

Meyuḥas ben Eliyah's Commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

A commentary on the Pentateuch of Meyuḥas ben Eliyah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-257v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פירוש התורה

This commentary is of mainly grammatical and less frequently of legal character.

Several commentators of the Bible and other rabinnic authorities, up until the 12th century, are quoted.

Author: Meyuḥas ben Eliyahu מיוחס בן אליהו
Colophon: נשלם זה הספר הנחמד שחיברו ר' מיוחס ב"ר אליהו ז"ל על ידי אליהו ב"ר אלקנה מניקופולי בשנת ה' אלפי' ורכ"ט ליצירה לחדש ניסן בט' בו. והש' יזכנו ויחיש גאולתינו. ובימינו יבוא משיחנו. ונראה ונשמח כולנו. ונאמר הנה אלהינו זה קוינו לו ויושיענו זה ה' קוינו לו נגילה ונשמחה בישועתו אאאנ"ס. f. 257v
ff. 1v-2r
Title: Introduction
Incipit: עיין בהקדמה זו ואל תיפן אל און כי על זה בחרת מעני: f. 1v
ff. 2r-33v
Title: Genesis
ff. 33v-86v
Title: Exodus
ff. 86v-167r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 167r-205r
Title: Numbers
ff. 205r-257v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper and vellum codex, Oriental (Byzantine) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment
Extent: 257 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 261 × 197 mm.
Dimensions (written): 212 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

13 quires of 20 leaves each, apart from the last which has only 17 leaves.

Each verso had been signed but the margins were cut off.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Watermarks in the shape of scale similar to Briquet no. 2444 (see volume I of [Briquet_1968] 183), dated 1469, Venezia.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Byzantine) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Eliyahu ben Elḳanah of Nikopolis: inscribed in the colophon, folio 257v.

Binding

Post-1600. Solid black leather binding.

History

Origin: 1469 Byzantium

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Netter: purchased from him on 14 October 1854, inscribed (folio [258v]).

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

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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. 201.

Bibliography

    [Briquet_1968] Charles Moïse Briquet. 'Les Filigranes. Dictionnaire Historique Des Marques Du Papier Des Leur Apparition Vers 1282 Jusqu’en 1600. A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material Contributed by a Number of Scholars. Edited by Allan Stevenson. (The New Briquet. Jubilee Edition.).'Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968.

Funding of Cataloguing

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