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Or 2627

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Or 2627
Title:
The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 2
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
273 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2627 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1483
Date Range:
1483
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Names:
Benjamin Cohen
Shemu᾿el ben Shemu᾿el ibn Musa
Yosef ben Yudah called Elhakhim
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2627

The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 2

Contents

The second volume of the Bible, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-273v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Colophon: f. vol. 3, 185v 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.
Filiation: Second 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..

20 full borders sometimes accompanied with decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold. f. 1v, 134r, 134v, 135r, 135v, 136v, 168r, 210r, 246r, 250v, 252r, 256r, 256v, 258r, 260v, 261v, 263r, 264v, 265v, 271v

4 decorated initial-word panels. f. 1v, 21r, 40r, 85v

ff. 1v-21r
Title: Joshua
ff. 21r-40r
Title: Judges
ff. 40r-85v
Title: Samuel
ff. 85v-136v
Title: Kings
ff. 136v-168r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 168r-210r
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 210r-246r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 246r-250v
Title: Hosea
ff. 250v-252r
Title: Joel
ff. 252r-256r
Title: Amos
ff. 256r-256v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 256v-258r
Title: Jonah
ff. 258r-260v
Title: Micah
ff. 260v-261v
Title: Nahum
ff. 261v-263r
Title: Habakuk
ff. 263r-264v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 264v-265v
Title: Haggai
ff. 265v-271v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 271v-273v
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 273 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 245 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

273 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 2 older and 4 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

34 quires: i-xvi8 (folios 1-128), xvii8-1 (folios 129-135), xviii-xxv8 (folios 136-199), xxvi10 (folios 200-209), xxvii-xxxiv8 (folios 210-273).

Catchwords.

On guards.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

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

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

The Former and the Latter Prophets separated by two leaves containing a masoretic list.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, partially punctuated, of the 15th century. 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

20 full borders sometimes accompanied with decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold. 4 decorated initial-word panels.

20 full borders sometimes accompanied with decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold. f. 1v, 134r, 134v, 135r, 135v, 136v, 168r, 210r, 246r, 250v, 252r, 256r, 256v, 258r, 260v, 261v, 263r, 264v, 265v, 271v

4 decorated initial-word panels. f. 1v, 21r, 40r, 85v

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. Former and Latter Prophets. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2627.'

History

Origin: 1483 Portugal, Central (Lisbon)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef ben Yudah called 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.

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_2627 (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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