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Title:
The 'Almanzi Pentateuch'
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Oriental Manuscripts
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464 folios
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1474
Date Range:
1450-1474
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CE
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 27167

The 'Almanzi Pentateuch'

Contents

Pentateuch (aka the 'Almanzi Pentateuch') with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-464v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה,הפטרות ומגילות

Masoretic notes in the margin of the text are rare.

Masoretic lists appear in the body of the leaves and round the margin of the same.

The Hafṭarot of this manuscript often agree with the Ashkenazi use.

f. 11v, 86r, 149v, 192v, 256r 5 frontispieces with initial-word panels and full floral border, in colours and gold.

30 masoretic lists decorated with penwork and full pen-flourished border, in mauve ink. f. 1v-8v, 455r-462r

Numerous parashah signs decorated with pen-flourishing, in mauve, blue and red ink.

Numerous initial-word panels with penwork and pen-flourishing, in mauve and black ink.

ff. 1v-10v
Title: Masoretic lists
ff. 11v-86r
Title: Genesis
ff. 86r-148v
Title: Exodus
ff. 148v-192v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 192v-256r
Title: Numbers
ff. 256r-311r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 311r-407v
Title: Hafṭarot

The Hafṭarot of the weekly pericopes, the four special sabbaths, and the fasts and feasts.

ff. 407v-413v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 413v-419v
Title: Ruth
ff. 419v-427v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 427v-441r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 441r-454r
Title: Esther
ff. 455r-464v
Title: Masoretic lists

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the third quarter of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 464 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

464 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

60 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii-xii8 (folios 11-98), xiii6 (folios 99-104), xiv-xv8 (folios 105-120), xvi6 (folios 121-126), xvii4 (folios 127-130), xviii-xxxv8 (folios 131-274), xxxvi6 (folios 275-280), xxxvii-xlii8 (folios 281-328), xliii6 (folios 329-334), xliv-lix8 (folios 335-462), lx2 (folios 463-464).

Catchwords at the end of the quires, probably added later.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout. Visible ruling.

Numerous decorations: parashah signs decorated with pen-flourishing, initial-word panels with penwork and pen-flourishing, frontispieces with initial-word panels and full floral border, masoretic lists decorated with penwork and full pen-flourished border.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, third quarter of 15th century, punctuated.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1660. Dark green leather binding, tooled in gold, centrepiece.

Spine: 'The Pentateuch, Hafṭaroth, and Five Megilloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 167.'

History

Origin: 1450-1474 3rd quarter of the 15th century Portugal (Lisbon)

Provenance and Acquisition

Italian inscription, 1518 (folio 10v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 277; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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

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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. 83.
    Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 35 (Hebrew section).
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scentifique, 1970), pp. 70-73.
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626, introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988), pp. 14-16 [facsimile edition].
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 64-65.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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