Rashi's Torah commentary
ff. 1r-106r
Rashi, 1040-1105;
שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י),
Perush ha-Torah (Torah commentary) פרוש התורה לרש"י Numerous marginal notes.
Colophon: Colophon of the scribe Yitsḥaḳ bar Yehudah on fol. 106r: "ושלי הוא יצחק יהודה ב"ר וכתבתיהו וסיימתיהו בר"ח כסליו שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וששים ותשע לבריאת עולם"
Language(s): Hebrew
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 106
Dimensions (leaf): 281 × 219 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves, no signatures catchwords at the end of the quires, some have been trimmed off.
Layout
Text in two columns.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive and cursive script.
Decoration
Carmina figurata (fols. 74r, 74v, 106r)
Diagram (fol. 90r)
Additions: Second front flyleaf is a parchment charter of Pope Julian II concerning the St Catherine Church at Oppenheim and another one in Trier. The document is dated to January 1506. It mentions among others Berthold von Mainz (or Berthold von Henneberg, 1441-1504), the archbishop of Mainz. Illegible text on the recto of this leaf by a much later hand. Eightteenth-century (?) engraved title page with incorrect date (5149 instead of 5169) with the figures of Moses and Aaron, numbered as '264'.
Binding
Light brown leather binding, blind-tooled.
Origin: [Ashkenaz]; 1408
Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscriptions by the scribe's son, Shlomoh bar Yitsḥaḳ: "אני שלמה בר יעקב" (fol. [ii]v that is a parchment charter); "משולם בר יצחק זל..." (fol. 1r, beginning of the inscription was trimmed off); "שליזאת הפרישה מחומש וכתיבת אבא מורי ז"ל נאום הצעיר משלם בר’ יצחק ז"ל המכונה קוופמן היימבך" . Onwership inscription by Naftali bar Yaʿaḳov
It belonged to David Oppenheimer's (1667-1735) library, which was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1829.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 188, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 188,and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Microfilm
MSS R.R. Film No. F 16252
Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 188.
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. 188.