MS. Laud Or. 324
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Torah with Targum Onḳelos
With Targum Onḳelos after each verse. On the margins the small masorah with some additions, such as Num. 4. מפי החזן מטרוייש . The larger masorah ceases on Gen. 16; it is to be found again on Ex. 14:15 and a few lines at the end of Numbers and the beginning of Deut.
On fol. 60 an extract from Targum Yerushalmi, different from the edn., ed. from this MS by A. Epstein in REJ 30 (1895): 46-47.
Copied by Simḥah b. Judah of Nuremberg, who copied the Worms Mahzor in 1272 (MS Jerusalem JNUL 4° 781/1). The vocalizer-Masorete's name was probably Baruch (pointed out in the masorah on fol. 16v).
Physical Description
Layout
Hair side/flesh side are indistinguishable, pricking, ruling are often visible.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi square 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.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscription: "Liber Guil[ie]lmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cant[uariensis] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1634" (fol. 1v); Small round stamp of the Bibliotheca Bodleiana on every recto.
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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