Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

MS. Laud Or. 101

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

Contents

Collection of biblical commentaries

Physical Description

ff. 314

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

1. ff. 2r-8v
Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270משה בן נחמן (רמב"ן), Commentary on the Pentateuch חידושים בפי' התורה

Ends Gen. 2:12. Not the short commentary. The copyist deleted some passages.

Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 9r-18v
Italian translation of Ketuvim (passages of Job)
Language(s): Italian in Hebrew characters
3. ff. 19r-98v
Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235קמחי, דוד בן יוסף, (רד"ק), Commentary on Psalms פרוש כתובים לרד"ק (תהלים) ‬

No poem at the beginning; ends Ps.71:21

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: ff. 98 (numerous unfoliated leaves in between the works)
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 143 mm.
Foliation: Foliated with Arabic numerals, blank, unfoliated leaves between msItems.

Collation

No signatures are visible. No catchwords.

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

Origin: [Italy]; [mid-15th century]

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

4. ff. 100r-164v
Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270משה בן נחמן (רמב"ן), Short commentary on the Pentateuch פרוש התורה לרמב"ן (הקצר)
Colophon: Colophon on fol. 164v: "סליקו ... ע"י אליעזר משה יהע"ל בכ"ר יואב ז"ל דלבריאה היום יום א’ כ’ באלול שנת א’ב’ר’ך’ לפרט קטן וכתבתיו לר’ רפאל יזיי"א בכ"ר יוסף יצחק ישר"ו"
Language(s): Hebrew
5. ff. 165r-166v
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th centuryריקאנטי, מנחם בן בנימין, Sefer Reʾayat ha-Yadayim me-eḥad me-ḥakhmei Hodu ספר ראיית הידים מאחד מחכמי הודו

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.

Language(s): Hebrew
6. ff. 167r-167v
Fragment beginning with תחילת המשפט הגורלות
Language(s): Hebrew
7. ff. 170v-235v
Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344לוי בן גרשום, Commentary on Job פרוש כתובים לרלב"ג (איוב)
Language(s): Hebrew
8. ff. 236r-302(i)r
Ṭoviyahu ben Eliʻezer, active 11th centuryטוביה בן אליעזר, Midrash leḳaḥ ṭov (le-ḥamesh megilot) מדרש לקח טוב (לחמש מגלות)
Colophon: On fol.236r: "ותכל מלאכת עבודת הקדש על ידי הצעיר אליעזר משה יהע"ל בכמ"ר יואב זצ"ל מלבריאה ... למר’ רפאל יזיי"א בכ"ר יוסף יצחק ישרו’ והשלמתיו היום יום ה’ יום אחרון של חנוכה שנת רכ"ג לפרט קטן "
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper.
Extent: ff. 203 (100-302[i])
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 145 mm.
Foliation: Continuous, fol. 302 is double.

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves, no signatures, catchwords on the verso side of the last leaf of the quires.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

History

Origin: [Italy]; 1462-1463

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

9. ff. 305r-306v
Astrological fragment
Language(s): Hebrew
10. ff. 307r-314v
Sefer Goralot ספר גורלות

Incomplete at the end.

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942 (attributed to in the printed edition)

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

[Physical description in printed catalogue]
Form: codex
Support: Paper.
Extent: ff. 305-314
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 137 mm.
Foliation: Continuous.

Collation

1 quire of 10 leaves, no signatures, no catchwords.

Layout

Mostly in one column.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

History

Origin: [Spain]; [15th century]

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

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 240, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 240, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts,National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 16376

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 240
    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. 240
    שיר, רוני, מאגיה ומיסטיקה ביהדות: קבלה, כישוף, יכולות על-טבעיות (ירושלים, 1997), 91.
    שלום, גרשום, בעקבות משיח :‏ ‏אוסף מקורות מראשית התפתחות האמונה השבתאית (ירושלים, 1943), 474-477, 488-492.

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