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Add MS 22122
Title:
Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
177 folios (vi+177+v)
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Languages:
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Latin
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham ben Eli῾ezer
Georg Michael Asher
Gershon ben Eli῾ezer
Jos. H. Sim. Halberstamm
Me᾿ir ben Eli῾ezer
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Ḥayim ben Eli῾ezer
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Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary

Contents

The Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-176v
Title: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם פרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)
ff. 2r-51v
Title: Genesis
ff. 52r-98v
Title: Exodus

f. 52r Pen and ink initial word decoration.

ff. 99r-129r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 129v-155r
Title: Numbers
ff. 155r-176v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 177 folios (vi+177+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 276 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Front flyleaf (vi) and folio 177 is a parchment bifolio recycled from a Latin manuscript (binding fragment). F. 177v: Decorated initial 'H'.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 38

Written lines: 37

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.

Large square initial words.

Several corrections supplied in the margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, not punctuated.

ff. 2r-131r
- Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of 14th century.

ff. 131v-176v
- a different Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of 14th century.

Binding

Post-1600; black tooled leather.

Spine: 'Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 22,122.'

Accompanying Material

Two fragments of a Latin manuscript on ecclesiastical law, with decorated initials, serve as flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. Both contain Hebrew annotations with the names of previous owners.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Gershon ben Eli῾ezer, Ḥayim ben Eli῾ezer, Avraham ben Eli῾ezer, Me᾿ir ben Eli῾ezer: inscribed, folios 177r, 177v and 176v: probably of 15th or 16th century.

Jos. H. Sim. Halberstamm: inscribed with his name in a dedication entry on folio 1r: Andenken der Freundschaft von Jos. H. Sim. Halebrstamm: dated on 07 February 1816 in Warschau (Warsaw).

Georg Michael Asher (b. 1827, d. 1905): son of Adolphus Asher, bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (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 14 November 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_22122 (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. 178.

Bibliography

    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

Funding of Cataloguing

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