MS. Canonici Or. 62
Oriental Manuscripts Canonici Oriental Collection
Contents
Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, Five Scrolls, Hafṭarot and commentaries
Commentaries: Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, Ibn Ezra's commentary on Esther, Song of Songs with the commentary of Abraham ben Isaac ha-Levi Tamakh,(-1393), Ruth with the commentary of Rashi and Ibn Ezra, Lamentations with the commentary of Ibn Ezra, Ecclesiastes with the commentary of Ibn Ezra (only at the beginning)
The Pentateuch was finished on Sunday the 22nd of Tammuz 5232 = 1472 by Brakhiel ben Hizkiyah Raphael Tarbut ברכיאל בר’ חזקיה רפאל טרבוט for Abraham Rava אברהם רבא
Latin note on fol. 190r, Latin notes on front flyleaf verso about content.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Main text surrounded by marginal texts.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive scripts.
Italo-Ashkenazi square script (biblical text), semi-square (Onḳelos), and Sephardi semi-cursive script (Rashi on Pentateuch), Ashkenazi semi-cursive script (commentaries on the Five Scrolls, ff. 190v-210r) and frequently pointed out elsewhere; with punctuation.
Decoration
Illustrated and decorated initial-word panels (fols. 1r, 5v)
Marginal text often as carmina figurata.
Binding
White leather binding, blind-tooled.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Censor's note Camillo Jaghel 1619(?) (fol. 274v) 1619.
Record Sources
Availability
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