MS. Laud Or. 325

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

Summary of Contents: Ketuvim

ff. 1r-307v

Ketuvim כתובים

Ezrah, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Ester, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs; the books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English. On the margin variations of the Greek text (modern hand)

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper, watermark to be identified

Extent: ff. 307

Dimensions (leaf): 565 × 427 mm.

Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals; fol. 197 is double

Collation

x quires + 2 leaves inner/outer leaf of quire Hebrew/Arabic characters catchwords, repeated words, marked central opening

Condition

Binding is partially detached from collation; needs repair.

Layout

The columns.

Hand(s)

Non-Jewish hand

Trilingual, thus Hebrew, Greek and Latin scripts in parallel columns.

Decoration

Nor decorated.

Binding

Leather binding; holes for straps.

History

Origin: [ca. 1600]

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuari[ensis] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1636" (fol. 306v)

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. 95, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 95, 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 33108

Bibliography

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 95.

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. 95.