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Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch
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184 folios
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1401
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Names:
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Luigi da Bologna
Samuel Schönblum
Shelomoh Yedidyah ben Matatyah
Shem Ṭov ben Shemu᾿el Barukh
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Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

The commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-184v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר

Contains a standard introduction and a longer recension of the commentary on Exodus.

Colophon: אני שם טוב בר' שמואל ברוך ז"ל כתבתי זה הפירוש של ר' אברהם אבן עזרא זצ"ל ליקר השלם ר' שלמה ידידי' יזיי"א בכמ"ר מתתי' זלה"ה ה' ברחמיו יזכהו להגות בו ובכל ספרי הקדש הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות אמן ואמן. והשלמתיו בחדש זיו שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וששים ואחד לפרט היצירה . וסימניך טוב לי תורת פיך "מאלפי" זהב וכסף. לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך והגית בו יומם ולילה למען תשמור לעשות ככל הכתוב בו כי אז תצליח את דרכיך ואז תשכיל. חזק ואמץ אל תערוץ ואל תחת כי עמך ה' אלהיך בכל אשר תלך. ויוסיפו לך שנות חיים. f. 184v
ff. 1r-36v
Title: Genesis
ff. 36v-117r
Title: Exodus

f. 111r contains a small piece of Ibn Ezra on Lev. 23:15.

f. 111v has an explanation of 1Chron. 29:11.

f. 112v contains a commentary of Ibn Ezra on Ex. 3:15.

"ככה העתקתי ממכתב החכם כי שפתיו ישמרו דעת. f. 111v "
ff. 117r-140r
Title: Leviticus

Following this part of the commentary there is a note on Hebrew measures.

ff. 140r-161r
Title: Numbers
ff. 161r-184v
Title: Deuteronomy

References

[Friedlander_1967] 63-78

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 184 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 344 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 143 mm.
Foliation:

184 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

19 quires: i8, ii-xviii10, xix6.

Quires marked with catchwords on the last page and signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages.

Condition

Several mutilated folios.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling are visible.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the early 15th century. Shem Ṭov ben Shemu᾿el Barukh: inscribed with his name in the colophon, together with Shelomoh Yedidyah ben Matatyah, with a date of 5161 AM (1401 CE), folio 184v.

Additions:

Folios 17v, 23r have censor's erasures.

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather binding. Boxed..

History

Origin: 1401 Italy, N. (Bologna?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as a censor (fl. 1590 -  1609): inscribed with his name: Revisto per mi Fra Luigi del ordine de Sa' Domenico setembr del (15)91 (folio 184v). See [Popper_1969] 104.

Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (fl. 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 183v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101.

Samuel Schönblum, Vienna: purchased by the British Museum 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26880 (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. 193.

Bibliography

    [Friedlander_1967] Michael Friedländer. 'Essays on the Writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra / by M. Friedlaender. [Publications of the Society of Hebrew Literature. 2nd Series ]'. ירושלים: מצחף, 1967.
    [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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