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Or 2626

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Or 2626
Title:
The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 1
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
184 folios
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Hebrew
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1483
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1483
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Names:
Benjamin Cohen
Shemu᾿el ben Shemu᾿el ibn Musa
Yosef ben Yudah Elhakhim
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Or 2626

The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 1

Contents

Summary of Contents: The first volume of the three-volume Bible (aka 'the Lisbon Bible'), containing the Pentatuech with masorah magna, masorah parva and some masoretic notes; punctuated.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-184v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

Cf. [BL] Add MS 15251 (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. 61. and [BL] Or 2201 (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. 52.) regarding a treatise of Ben-Asher, Sefer ha-ṭeʻamim, written in the margins of folios 1r-22v.

Filiation: First of the three uniform volumes of the Hebrew Bible, the others being [BL] Or 2627 and [BL] Or 2628, see 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. 62.
Colophon: אני שמואל הסופר בר' שמואל ן' מוסא נ"ע כתבתי אלו ארבעה ועשרים בעזרת יושב הכרובים במאמר הגביר הנחמד השם הטוב כגן רטוב זית רענן יפה פרי תאר ר' יוסף בן כבוד ר' יהודה המכונה אלחכים בצרור החיים תהא נשמתו המתים בגן עדן ינחם והחיים למען חסדיו ירחם וצוה לחקור דקדוקים ולבקר וכל אשר אזן וחקר על כן יענו לו אשריו ואשרי בניו אחריו, ינצרהו האל ויראהו ביאת הגואל ובימיו יושע יהודה וישראל בוראהו חסד ימציאהו אל יאבד לנצח גבירנו וסימתיו בחדש כסלו יום ששי ערב שבת בין השמשות שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים וארבעים ושלשה לבריאת עולם במדינת לישבואה ישע יקרב. אמן. f. vol. 3, 185v

53 full borders, in colours and gold.

ff. 1v-22v
ff. 180r-184v

Numerous decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold.

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours and gold.

Masorah magna in micrographical design in the margins.

Full-page micrographic design. f. 179v

ff. 1r-23v
Title: List of 613 commandments.

A recension of the treatise of Ben-Asher, Sefer ha-ṭeʻamim, is written in the margins.

ff. 23v-61v
Title: Genesis
ff. 61v-94r
Title: Exodus
ff. 94r-117r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 117r-150r
Title: Numbers
ff. 150r-180r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 180r-184v
Title: A masoretic list.

In the margins there is a continuation of Sefer ha-ṭeʻamim of Ben-Asher from the first folios of the manuscript.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 184 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

184 folios (+ 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 modern and 2 older unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

24 quires: i-ii8 (folios 1-8, 9-16), iii6(folios 17-22), iv-x8 (folios 23-78), xi6(folios 79-84), xii-xix8 (folios 85-148), xx6 (folios 149-154), xxi-xxiii8 (folios 155-178), xxiv6 (folios 179-184).

Catchwords at the end of a quire.

On guards.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable. Ruling with hard-point visible.

Masorah magna in two lines in the upper margin and three lines in the lower margin.

The beginning of the weekly section marked by פרש'.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, punctuated. Shemu᾿el ben Shemu᾿el ibn Musa: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Lisbon, 5243 [1483] (see volume 3, Or 2628, folio 185v).

Decoration

53 full borders, in colours and gold. Numerous decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold. Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours and gold. Masorah magna in micrographical design in the margins. Full-page micrographic design.

Full borders, in colours and gold.

ff. 1v-22v-180-184v

Numerous decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold.

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours and gold.

Masorah magna in micrographical design in the margins.

Full-page micrographic design. f. 179v

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house. Green leather, gold-tooled Star of David on the inner and outer cover.

Spine title: 'Hebrew Bible. Lisbon 1484-53. Pentateuch. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2626.'

History

Origin: 1483 Portugal, Central (Lisbon)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef ben Yudah Elhakhim: inscribed with his name in the colophon (see volume 3, Or 2628, folio 185v).

Benjamin Cohen of Bukhara: purchased by the British Museum from him on 17 November 1882 (folio [188v]).

1882-11-17

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_2626 (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. 62.
    Jacob Leveen, The Hebrew Bible in Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scentifique, 1970), pp. 24-29.
    Therese Metzger, Les manuscrits he´breux copie´s et de´core´s a` Lisbonne dans les dernie`res de´cennies du XVe sie`cle (Paris: Fundac¸a~o Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro cultural portugue^s, 1977), pp. 33-48.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 42; II, figs 404-19.
    Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626, introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988) [facsimile edition].
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), p. 206.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 60-61.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 156 [exhibition catalogue].
    Online Gallery: Turn the Pages (The British Library): http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/lisbon/accessible/introduction.html [accessed on 2 June 2011].

Bibliography

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