MS. Laud Or. 273
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Perush Neviʾim le-Radaḳ (Yeshayah ṿe-Yeremiyah)
The scribe, Daṿid ben Yaʿaḳov b. Polia (?) copied the MS for himself.
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
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
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
Availability
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Microfilm
MSS R.R. Film No. F 17229