Legal decisions of Isaiah di Trani the Elder
2. ff. 236v-257r
Isaiah ben Mali, di Trani, approximately 1200-טרני, ישעיה בן אליהו די,
Sefer ha-Makriaʿ ספר המכריע Written for Rabbi Menaḥem ben Binjamin.
Colophon: Colophon of the scribe Paola Abraham ben Yoav on fol. 257r: "תהלות יי’ ... אשר רחמני אותי פולה בת ר’ אברהם הסופר בי"ר יואב צי"ע ... ר’ מנחם בי"ר בנימן הצדיק ... קרובי ... והפצירני ... לכתוב לו הספר ... ונגמרה ... יום רביעי שני ימים לחודש הראשון שנת חמשת אלפים וחמשים ושלשה לבריאת עולם" Language(s): Hebrew
Origin: [Italy]; 1293
Provenance and Acquisition
Censors' signatures: V[incentiu]s de Matelica (256v), Iac[obu]s Geraldini 1555; Domenico Irosolomit[an]o, Aless[and]ro Scipione; Gio. Domenico Carretto, 1617 (257r).
Matteo Luigi Canonici's (1727-1805) collections passed to his brother Giuseppe, and on his death in 1807 to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who divided them. To the former fell the MSS., then about 3550 in number, and, after many attempts to sell them, the Bodleian became the purchaser of the greater part in 1817, for £5444 5s. 1d., or including incidental expenses about £6030, the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The formal list of volumes handed over was signed on May 18, 1817, and the books probably arrived later that year.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 635, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 635,and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Microfilm
MSS R.R. Film No. F 20216
Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 635.
Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 635.
Beit-Arie, Malachi. Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books: The Evolution of Manuscript Production - Progression or Regression (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003), 63, n6
Omnia in EO: Studies on Jewish Books and Libraries in Honour of Adri Offenberg celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, ed. Irene Zwiep et al. (Leuven: Peeters, 2006), 146.
Epstein, Marc Michael (ed.), Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), p. 57, fig. 45