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Title:
Pentateuch with commentary
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
382 folios
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Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Start Date:
1360
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1360-1399
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CE
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Names:
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Samuel Schönblum
Shemuʾel ben he-ḥaver rabi Ḥayim
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Pentateuch with commentary

Contents

Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary and Targum Onḳelos; the Five Scrolls; the Hafṭarot with Rashi's commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-382v
Title: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה עם פרוש רש"י, מגילות והפטרות
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

26 decorated and inhabited initial-word panels/initial words with silver, gold and red letters, in colour. f. 7r, 11v, 22v, 29r, 34r, 46r, 50v, 57r, 63v,76v, 80v, 85v, 162r, 168v, 174v, 180r, 189r, 239r, 245v, 252v, 260v, 335r, 341v, 344v, 356v, 357v

1 inhabited initial-word panel in ink. f. 322v

Numerous decorated and inhabited initial words, in ink.

Diagrams of the Holy Land. f. 205r

Numerous carmina figurata and micrographic designs in the margins.

8 marginal drawings. f. 42v, 43v, 49v, 51v, 53v, 67v, 115r, 161v

Numerous decorative column endings of the marginal text, among them 3 small coats of arms. f. 15r, 22r, 79r

Drawings next to the catchwords. f. 54v, 106v

The Pentateuch has both the punctuated Targum and Rashi's commentary.

The manuscript breaks off in the Hafṭarah for Shabbat and Rosh ḥodesh.

Alternative Hafṭarot given in the margins.

Frequent masoretic notes.

See [Kogman_Narkiss_2009] 331.

ff. 1r-50v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters 1:1-18:1

ff. 50v-113r
Title: Exodus
ff. 113r-147r
Title: Leviticus

Missing chapters 23:20-27:34.

ff. 147r-209r
Title: Numbers

Missing chapters 22:38-23:18, 27:4-23.

ff. 209r-273r
Title: Deuteronomy
Explicit: חזק ואמץ הסופר שמואל. f. 272r
ff. 273r-278v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 278v-285r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 285r-290v
Title: Ruth
ff. 290v-300v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 300v-311v
Title: Esther
Explicit: חזק שמואל בן החבר רבי חיים זצ"ל בלונדייל. f. 311v
ff. 312r-382v
Title: Hafṭarot for the whole year.

With Rashi's commentary.

Hafṭarot for Passover, starting wtih folio 340r, have the text of Targum in alternate verses.

Explicit: חזק: נשלמו הפטרות מפסח וכו'. f. 382v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 382 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170/160 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

382 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 older and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

47 quires: i-iv8 (folios 1-32), v12 (folios 33-44), vi10 (folios 45-54), vii12 (folios 55-66), viii-xxii8 (folios 67-186), xxiii8-2 (folios 187-192), xxiv-xlvi8 (folios 193-378), xlvii7 (folios 379-382).

Catchwords are sometimes decorated.

Condition

The codex is imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

There are two lacunae after folios 146, 378 and the outer bifolio is missing from quire xxiii.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 24 29

Written lines: 23 28

Uniform layout.

Folio 382r comes from a much smaller codex with a fragment of Psalm 119 (119:48-65) written in Sephardic square script.

Folio 382r and 382v: there is a partially erased Hebrew inscription in the upper margin.

Sometimes threefold catchwords for main text, Targum and commentary (e.g. folio 44r).

Watermark on back flyleaf (i): a circle with the letters 'BG' and a cross on top, similar to [Briquet_1968] 3046-3047 (dated 1569-71, Reggio Emilia).

The end of a weekly section in the Pentateuch is marked by three letters pe; the beginning is distiguished by the large ornamental characters of the first word, together with a pen and ink design, usually of a dragon (similar larger design at the beginning of the book).

The commentary is often arranged in ornamental designs of different kinds.

Several additional or alternative Hafṭarot  given in the margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 14th century. Shemuʾel ben he-ḥaver rabi Ḥayim: inscribed with his name in a colophon, in Lunel? (folios 272r, 311v); the name Shemuʾel is marked (folio 209r).

ff. 371r-381v
- due to a different Ashkenazi hand.

ff. 382r-382v
- by a later hand, Sefardi square script.

Additions:

Ḥayim: the word is decorated or marked as an acrostic (folios 50v, 334r, 348r).

Yosef: the name is marked with a small human head attached to it (folios 270r, 320v).

Hebrew inscription: letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order and in counter order a blessing; its last part had been crossed out (back flyleaf (ii)r).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch, Meghilloth, and Haphtaroth with Targum and Commentary of Rashi. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,878.'

History

Origin: 1360-1399 France

Provenance and Acquisition

Remains of a contract, mostly illegible (folio 272v).

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 August 1865: inscribed, back flyeaf (iii)v.

1865-08-24

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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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. 177.

Bibliography

    [Kogman_Narkiss_2009] Narkiss, Bezalel. “The Seal of Solomon the Scribe: The Illustrations of the Albenc Pentateuch of 1340.” In 'Between Judaism and Christianity: Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher', edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, 319–351. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
    [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.

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