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Title:
Gan Elohim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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139 folios
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1403
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1403
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1403
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Names:
M. Ashkenazi
Rafa᾿el
Yehudah ha-Rofe᾿ of Aqulia
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Add MS 22092

Gan Elohim

Contents

Summary of Contents: Gan Elohim, a supra-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, very similar to Minḥat Yehudah of Yehudah ben Eli῾ezer.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-139v
Title: Gan Elohim
Title: גן אלהים

1 inhabited initial word in brown ink. f. 3v

Colophon: סיימתי גן אלהים. של אלהים חיים. ליל ו' פרשת. אלה פקודי שנת קס"ג לאלף השישי. חזק ונתחזק: רפאל לא יזק. לא היום ולא לעולם עד שיעלה חמור בסולם. אא"א סלה. f. 130v
ff. 3r-51v
Title: Genesis
ff. 51v-93r
Title: Exodus
ff. 93r-105r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 105r-118v
Title: Numbers
ff. 118v-131v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 131v-137r
Title: Notes

References

[Freimann_1950] 231-342

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 139 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

139 folios (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

15 quires: i3 (1*-2), ii10 (3-12), iii10 (13-22), iv10 (23-32), v10 (33-42), vi10 (43-52), vii10 (53-62), viii10 (63-72), ix10 (73-82), x10 (83-92), xi10 (93-102), xii10 (103-112), xiii10 (113-122), xiv10 (123-132), xv6+1 (133-139).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 28

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.

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Numerous marginal notes, additions, corrections by an Italian hand of 15th-16th century.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Rafa᾿el: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 163 (1403) (folio 130v); the name Rafa᾿el is decorated (folio 12r).

ff. 131v-137r
- small pieces by different hands.

Additions:

Numerous Hebrew inscriptions by Italian hands of the 15th-16th centuries (folios 1*, 2v, 139r).

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 22,092.'

History

Origin: 1403 Italy, N. or France

Provenance and Acquisition

Contract of sale with names erased, 1404 (folio 131r).

Purchase note (15th-16th century) (folio 139r).

Yehudah ha-Rofe᾿ of Aqulia (?): inscribed with his name (folio 2r).

M. Ashkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him in 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

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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. 190.

Bibliography

    [Freimann_1950] Alexander Marx. 'Alexander Marx : Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday.English Section / Foreword Signed: Saul Lieberman,Editor.'New York: The Jewish theological seminary of America, 1950.
    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

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