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Or 1487

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Or 1487
Title:
Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
194 folios
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
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
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1487

Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

The commentary of Abraham Ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-194v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר

1 carpet page with penwork decoration in colours. f. 138v

Numerous initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in red, mauve and blue ink.

Numerous embellished bands with penwork decoration, in red, mauve and blue ink.

8 marginal decorations in red mauve ink. f. 108r, 108v, 111r, 123r, 123v, 125r, 125v, 134v

 1 carmina figurata. f. 181r

ff. 1r-41r
Title: Genesis
ff. 41r-111r
Title: Exodus
ff. 111r-139r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 139r-165v
Title: Numbers
ff. 165v-194v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 15th century
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 194 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190/185 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

27 quires: i4+1 (1-5), ii8+1 (6-14), iii-xv8 (15-118), xvi8-1 (119-125), xvii-xxvi8 (126-189), xxvii8-4+1 (190-193+194).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Several mutilated folios.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Watermarks on folio 2 and back flyleaf (i). 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).

Pricking and hard-point ruling are visible.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Folio 194r-194v is a later reconstruction.

Deleted and rewritten section on folio 25v.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century, unpunctuated.

f. 19r and f. 25v - contain two erased passages, which have been restored by a later hand.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory parchment binding, tooled in black.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Iberian Peninsula or Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

ʾAvraham ʾibn ʿEzraʾ ha-Sefaradi (author): inscribed with his name in the author’s colophon (40v).

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: his inscription (?): This book was purchased by me from one of the chief Rabbis in Jerusalem in Ocotber 1868... (covered by a paper slip glued over it); bought from him, 24 November, 1877: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)r.

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=Or_1487 (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. 191.

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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