MS. Laud Or. 271
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Perush ha-Tefilot
The earliest Ashkenazi codex to be written in a semi-cursive script (M. Beit-Arie).
Beginning is incomplete.
Autography of Aharon ben Ḥayyim ben Ḥananel ha-Kohen. Words 'kohen' are marked on fol. 92v. Marginal notes from scribe, for example: " לא מצאתי יותר " (fol. 110v), " זה סיום מעבר לדף ", " לא מצאתי יותר לא קרוב... ןלא סליחות " (fol. 182v).
Numerous marginal notes in Hebrew, mostly by the scribe?
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
Text in two columns expect fols. 111r-135v that is in 1 column. Pricking and ruling are visible.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive script
Decoration
Ink drawings at the end of the MS on fol. 193v of a woman baking(?) and a knight on horseback.
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
Ownership inscription: "Liber Guil[ielmi] Laude Archiepi[scopi] Cantuarij et Cancellarii Universit. Oxon[iensis] 1636" (fol.1r)
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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