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Or 1088
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- Abraham ibn Ezra's Torah commentary
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 162 folios
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Or 1088
Abraham ibn Ezra's Torah commentary
Contents
The commentary of Abraham Ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch, with notes from other commentators.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-162vTitle: Perush ha-TorahTitle: פרוש התורהColophon: אני שבתי ע"י תלמיד הסופרים בכא"מ יהושע סופר מטיבולי י"ץ כתבתי זה הפירוש מאבן עזרא על חמשה חומשי תורה עם הגהות וביאורים ופירושי' אחרים כתובים בו מכתיבה קטנה וכתבתי אותו לאדוני המפואר והמתואר כמה"ר שמואל בכ"ר מנחם נ"ע פה ב פיורינטינו נכתב באחד עשר שבועות נשלם ביציאת שבט שנת "רחם" תזכור לאלף הששי ה' ית' יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד אלף דור ולא ימושו ממנו לא היום ולא לעולם עד שיעלה חמור בסולם אפירולא (אכירונ"א?). f. 162rIncipit: בשם האל הגדול והנורא אחל פירוש אבן עזרא על חמשה חומשי תורה לשמואל הארי שבחבורה ע"י שבתי עבד ה' בכא"מ יהושע יצ"ו סופר שנת "רחם" פיורינטינו. f. 3rThis manuscript contains a standard introduction but the commentary on Exodus is a shorter recension.
ff. 1r-43rTitle: Genesisff. 43r-87vTitle: Exodusff. 87v-113rTitle: Leviticusff. 113r-135vTitle: Numbersff. 135v-162vTitle: DeuteronomyPhysical Description
Vellum codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 162 foliosDimensions (leaf): 261 × 199 mm.Dimensions (written): 170 × 140 mm.Foliation:162 folios (+ 2 foliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper fleleaves at the end).
Collation
16 quires of 10 leaves each.
Quires marked with catchwords on the last page and signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages.
Condition
Folios 157-161 have the lower margin cut off.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 30
Written lines: 30
Ink-ruling is visible.
Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.
The notes from other sources in smaller characters are usually introduced byt the phrase‘yesh mefareshim’or‘yesh omrim’.
Initial letters of the chapters are written in large square characters.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Shabtai ben Yehoshu῾a ofTivoli and Shemu᾿el ben Menaḥem: their names inscribed in the colophon (162r) and the opening note (3r), Fiorentino?, 1488. Scribe's name is often marked by the initial letters in the lines of a page.
Additions:Binding
Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather.
History
Origin: 1488 Italy, C. (Castiglion Fiorentino?, Castelfiorentino? Fiorentina?)Provenance and Acquisition
Folio 28r - has censor's erasure.
Folios 1v-2v - an English translation by John Noble Coleman of one of the anti-Christian passages from the commentary.
Three partially illegible owners' notes in Hebrew, folio 162v, one of them dated 371 (1611).
Rev. John Noble Coleman (b. 1793, d. 1872): scholar of the Bible at Queen's College, Oxford: his bookplate affixed to folio 1v and another to the [inner side of the outer cover]. On folio 2r there is a memorandum stating that Granville Sharp (b. 1734, d. 1813), theologian and lawyer, was a previous owner of this manuscript, from whom Coleman bought it for 3 guineas.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1088 (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. 194.Funding of Cataloguing
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