MS. Laud Or. 101
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Collection of biblical commentaries
Physical Description
Binding
Light brown leather binding, blind-tooled.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owner's inscriptions on fol. 1r: " לזכר טוב יהיה אמן לספר שמי ... "; "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuar[iensis] et Cancellarii Uniuersitatis Oxon[iensis] 1635"
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
MS. Laud Or. 101/1
Contents
Ends Gen. 2:12. Not the short commentary. The copyist deleted some passages.
No poem at the beginning; ends Ps.71:21
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Text in one column, except the second work (fols. 9-18) which is in 2 columns.
Hand(s)
Italian cursive script
Each work by a different hand (no. 3, last lines of fols. 93v-94r in two different hands, fols. 94v-98v in a very cursive script).
Decoration
Not decorated.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
MS. Laud Or. 101/2
Contents
At the beginning: " ליקוטים מצאתי כתובי’ בקונטרס אחד מכמ"ר מנחם דריקנטי ז"ל ".
Edited from this MS. by Gershom Scholem in ספר אסף (Jerusalem, 1943), 488-92.
Physical Description
Collation
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script.
Decoration
Not decorated.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
MS. Laud Or. 101/3
Contents
Incomplete at the end.
Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942 (attributed to in the printed edition)
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Mostly in one column.
Hand(s)
Sephardi semi-cursive script.
Decoration
Not decorated.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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