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Add MS 22091
Title:
Commentary on Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
85 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Caspi, Joseph, c 1280-1340
Caspi, Joseph, c 1280-1340
M. Aschkenazi
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Add MS 22091

Commentary on Pentateuch

Contents

The commentary of Yosef Ibn Kaspi on Abraham Ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-85v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Caspi, Joseph, approximately 1280-approximately 1340 כספי, יוסף בן אבא מארי, 1280-1340
Colophon: f. 85v תם ונשלם פירוש אבן כספי על ביאור התורה של ר׳ אברהם בן עזרא בעזרת איום ונורא.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 85 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 152 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

85 folios (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchword on every verso.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

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.

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Chapter titles and initial words in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Ibn Kaspi's Supercommentary On Abr. Ibn Ezra's Comm. On Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Ms. 22091.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century France?

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Aschkenazi (b. 1830, d. 1884), bought from him, 01 August 1857: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22091 (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. 196.

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