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MS. Laud Or. 273

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

Contents

Perush Neviʾim le-Radaḳ (Yeshayah ṿe-Yeremiyah)

ff.1-186
Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235קמחי, דוד בן יוסף, 1160-1235, Perush Neviʾim le-Radaḳ (Yeshayah ṿe-Yeremiyah) פרוש נביאים לרד"ק (ישעיה וירמיה)

The scribe, Daṿid ben Yaʿaḳov b. Polia (?) copied the MS for himself.

Colophon: אני דוד בר’ יעקב ן’ פוליא ס"ט כתבתי זה הספר לעצמי וסיימתיו בכאן בביליא דיאגו ביום שלישי שמונה ימים לחדש ניסן שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וארבעים ואחת ליצירה ... (fol. XXX)
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper (unidentified watermark on the last flyleaf)
Extent: ff. 186
Dimensions (leaf): 319 × 228 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

No signatures, catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Stained and injured, paper fragile.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Decorated initial words (e.g., fol. 118r)

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: Villadiego (Spain); 1381

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuari[iensis] et Cancellar[ii] Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1635" (fol.1r); undeciphered note and signature on the verso of the last but one unfoliated flyleaf.

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. 310, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 310, 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.

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 17229

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 310.
    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. 310.

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