MS. Laud Or. 269
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh
With some glosses, ends with Nedarim.
Scribbles by various hands on fol. 2r, among them ... כתבתי זה בשנת יג
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
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
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
Availability
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