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Or 2853

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Or 2853
Title:
Perush ha-Torah
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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:
233 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
David Treves
Domenico Irosolimitano
N. Rabinowitz
Yosef Bekhor Shor
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2853

Perush ha-Torah

Contents

An anonymous commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-233v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה

Belongs probably to the school of Tosafists, wrongly attributed to Yosef Bekhor Shor (Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor, of Orleans, active 12th century), see folio 1r. Refers mostly to legal issues.

Large amount of references to Ashkenazi Talmudists.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 233 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

233 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end; 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 to 14 leaves.

Catchwords on every verso, but only partially preserved.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folios: 61, 71 and 227.

Stained and water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 28

Written lines: 24 28

Some omissions and additions supplied in the margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2853.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

David Treves: inscribed, folio 1r.

Censored by Domenico Irosolimitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1598 (214v); see [Popper_1969] 61.

N. Rabinowitz: purchased by the British Library from him on 18 April 1885: 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_2853 (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. 243.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL