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MS. Laud Or. 269

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

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Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh

Yaaqov ben Asher, ca. 1270-1340יעקב בן אשר, ?1270-?1340, Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh קצור פסקי הרא"ש

With some glosses, ends with Nedarim.

Scribbles by various hands on fol. 2r, among them ... כתבתי זה בשנת יג

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 128
Dimensions (leaf): 332 × 233 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

16 quires of 8 leaves. no signatures Catchwords are on the verso of the end of the quires.

Condition

Cracked spine.

Layout

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script

Decoration

Not decorated.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Archbisop Laud in the middle; holes for straps.Fragments of a Latin MS are pasted onto the inner covers.

History

Origin: [Ashkenaz]; [mid-late 14th century]

Provenance and Acquisition

Owners inscription: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuari[i] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1633" (fol.2v). At the end of the MS births and deaths; the earliest is of 5207 (1407), the death of R. Shimon ben Yitsḥaḳ.

Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 680, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 680, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 20595

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 680.
    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. 680.

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