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Add MS 26879
Title:
Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
268 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Samuel Schönblum
Yehudah Leṿi
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Add MS 26879

Prophets

Contents

Summary of Contents: Former and Latter Prophets punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva, Targum Jonathan and Rashi's commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-268v
Title: Nevi'im
Title: נביאים
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

3 decorated initial words in ink. f. 2v, 108r, 154v

1 marginal drawing, in brown ink. f. 97v

Micrography on 2 folios. f. 199v, 267v

Rashi's commentary in carmina figurata in numerous folios.

Decorated signs of haftarot, in brown ink.

ff. 2v-26v
Title: Joshua
ff. 26v-50r
Title: Judges
ff. 50r-108r
Title: Samuel
ff. 108r-154v
Title: Kings

Missing chapters: 1Kings 8:7-16:26.

ff. 154v-155r
Title: Jeremiah

Only 1:1.

ff. 155r-199v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 199v-235r
Title: Isaiah

Missing chapters 53:11-66:24.

ff. 235r-236r
Title: Hosea

Missing 1:1-9:16; 12:4-14:10.

ff. 236r-237v
Title: Joel

Missing 1:1-2:11.

ff. 237v-243r
Title: Amos
ff. 243r-243v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 243v-245v
Title: Jonah
ff. 245v-249r
Title: Micah
ff. 249r-251r
Title: Nahum
ff. 251r-252v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 252v-254v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 254v-256v
Title: Haggai
ff. 256v-265r
Title: Zechariah
ff. 265r-268v
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 268 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 365 × 290 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200/315 × 205/240 mm.
Foliation:

268 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf and 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

23 quires: i12 (2-13), ii12 (14-25), iii12 (26-37), iv12 (38-49), v12 (50-61), vi12 (62-73), vii12 (74-85), viii12 (86-97), ix8 (98-105), x12 (106-117), xi12 (118-129), xii12 (130-141), xiii12 (142-153), xiv12-3 (154-162), xv12 (163-174), xvi12 (175-186), xvii12 (187-198), xviii12 (199-210), xix12 (211-122), xx12 (223-234), xxi10 (235-244), xxii12 (245-256), xxiii12 (257-268).

Catchwords present throughout.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 38

Written lines: 37

The older flyleaves have a watermark of a coat of arms with a man in the moon, not found in [Briquet_1968] and [Heawood_1950] .

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Lacunae in the text are after folios 117, 154, 234, 235.

Masorah magna occupies three lines in the upper and four in the lower margin.

The Targum forms the inner column and Rashi's commentary (often in the form of circles and other designs) is written in the outer part of the page.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French?) square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yehudah Leṿi?: the name Yehudah is marked on 176r; Leṿi is marked on 266r. Scribal formula: 'Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall on the copyist not today and not ever until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens about which our father Jacob had dreamed' (267v).

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th century France?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note, with names deleted, 5119 (1359 CE) (2r); copy of the same purchase note, 17th-18th century.

Partially deleted inscription: [.. ..] Bar Elhanan blessed be his memory [.. ..] Mosheh Leṿi (2r).

Illegible Latin inscriptions (3r).

Entries of births and deaths (268r).

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (2r, 267v), see [Popper_1969] 85-87.

Samuel Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 August, 1865: 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. 187.

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.
    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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