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Or 2696

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Or 2696
Title:
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:
636
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1350-1399
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CE
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Names:
Abraham Luzzatto
Eleʿazar bar Shemuʾel ha-Leṿi
Menaḥem ben Yeḥiel
Meʾir ben Yitsḥaḳ
Molin (?) Montneier
Mordekhai Emendante
N. Rabinowitz
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rikha Luriah
Shelomoh Yedayah
Shelomoh bar Yosef Ḳastel Virnaḳo
Shelomoh ben Ḥayim
Yaʿaḳov Ṿiṭal
Yaʿaḳov ben Eliʿezer
Yisraʾel ben Meʾir Heilpron (Heilbronn?)
Yosef ben Shelomoh
Yoʾel Abram Luzzatto [..] di Cittadella
Ḥananel Menaḥem Yedayah(?) ben Yeḥiel
Ḥayim de-Ḳofdana
Ḥayim of Moriali ben Yaʿaḳov
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Or 2696

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch, the Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot with masorah and Rashi's commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-636v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot ʿim perush Rash"i
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות עם פרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105

2 diagrams of the Land of Canaan and its neighbours in ink. f. 340r, 341r

Numerous initial-word panels with gold letters, decorated with foliate motifs in colours or filigree penwork, or inhabited by dragons and hybrids in colours.

End of the text of Esther arranged in two medallions with two lions/dragons in ink. f. 438r

3 pen drawings around marginal notes. f. 94r, 605r, 616v

Commentary in geometric forms or in medallions.

ff. 3r-104v
Title: Genesis
ff. 104v-195r
Title: Exodus
ff. 195r-257v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 257v-345r
Title: Numbers
ff. 345r-423r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 423r-439r
Title: Esther
ff. 439r-452r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 452r-458v
Title: Ruth
ff. 458v-466v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 466v-487r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 487r-620v
Title: Hafṭarot

Hafṭarot of the weekly sections and of the feasts and fasts.

Alternative Hafṭarot are marked in the margins.

ff. 621r-636v
Title: Various liturgical and masoretic notes

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
636
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100/110, 75 × 45/50, 35/50 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

73 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii-ix8 (11-74), x10 (75-84), xi-xiv8 (85-116), xv12 (117-128), xvi8 (129-136), xvii12 (137-148), xviii8 (149-156), xix8 (157-164), xx12 (165-176), xxi8 (177-184), xxii10 (185-194), xxiii8 (195-202), xxiv10 (203-212), xxv-xxvii8 (213-236), xxviii-xxx12 (237-272), xxxi6 (273-278), xxxii-xxxix8 (279-342), xl-xli10 (343-362), xlii-xlvi8 (363-402), xlvii12 (403-414), xlviii8 (415-422), xlix10 (423-432), l16 (433-448), li-lii12 (449-472), liii8 (473-480), liv14 (481-494), lv10 (495-504), lvi-lviii8 (505-528), lix4 (529-532), lx-lxv8 (533-580), lxvi6 (581-586), lxvii-lxviii14 (587-614), lxix6 (615-619a), lxx-lxi6 (620-631), lxxii-lxxiii3 (632-637).

Catchwords.

From folio 601r onwards, due to the tight binding and the lack of catchwords, the collation cannot be established with certainty. It is clear, however, that there were some changes over time in the sequence of the folios. The prints of the text on folio 632 can be seen on the verso side of folio 619a, thus folios 635r-631v was inserted in between later.

The last folio of the codex was 634, folios 635r-637v are later additions.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Gilt edges.

Mostly 20 lines in the body of the text, with various number of columns in the commentary.

Blank folio after 619  is numbered as 619a. Parallel foliation on some folios from 3r (folio 3 = folio 1).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, punctuated. Mordekhai Emendante, punctuator and scribe of the masorah: inscribed with his name (104v, 344v); the name Mordechai is decorated ( f. 426v, 427r, 428r, 433v ). Ḥayim de-Ḳofdana of

ff. 632r -633v
?: inscribed with his name (folios 111r, 633r). The word ḥayim is decorated (folio 111r).

ff. 619v-636v
due to a different hand.

Additions:

Hebrew inscriptions partially illegible (folios 2r, 2v).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1350-1399 2nd quarter of the 14th century Germany, S. (Upper Rhine)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ḥayim of Moriali ben Yaʿaḳov owner: sold to Shelomoh Yedayah (?) in 164 [1404]: purchase note (634r).

Shelomoh ben Ḥayim sold it to Menaḥem ben Yeḥiel on Tuesday, 4 Tishri168 [1408]: purchase note (634r).

Ḥananel Menaḥem Yedayah(?) ben Yeḥiel: sold to Yaʿaḳov ben Eliʿezer on Wednesday 13 Tishri, 191 [1430]: purchase note (634r).

Yaʿaḳov ben Eliʿezer sold it to Eleʿazar bar Shemuʾel ha-Leṿi on Thursday24 Tishri, 191 [1430]: purchase note (634r).

Molin (?) Montneier's widow: sold through Meʾir ben Yitsḥaḳ: purchase note (15th century) (634r).

Yisraʾel ben Meʾir Heilpron (Heilbronn?): sold to Yosef ben Shelomoh: purchase note (15th century) (634r).

Shelomoh bar Yosef Ḳastel Virnaḳo (?), Rikha Luriah: inscribed with their names (16th century?) (3r).

Yaʿaḳov Ṿiṭal: inscribed with his name (17th century?) (2r).

Yoʾel Abram Luzzatto [..] di Cittadella: inscribed with his name in Italian (1r).

Abraham Luzzatto owner and his wife Perla: inscribed with their names, 433 [1673] (2r).

1883-12-08

N. Rabinowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 December 1883: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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_2696 (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. 179.
    Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 330a).
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, 'Filigree Ornaments in Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscripts of the Upper Rhine', Jewish Art, 12/13 (1986/1987), 45-54 (pp. 50-51).
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles' New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996) http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm [accessed on 17 December 2010].
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 42 [exhibition catalogue].
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 70-71.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL