MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 26
Oriental Manuscripts Oppenheim Collection
Contents
Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch, Hafṭarot , Five Scrolls and Megilat Antiochus
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Text in two columns.
Hand(s)
Sephardi square script.
Decoration
Microgaphical decorations (carpet pages, full-page frames, etc.)
Binding
Dark brown morocco binding, gold-tooled.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owner's inscriptions: on fol. 239v above the main colophon, by Samuel Don Abravanel: מהנשא דון שמואל אברבנאל . Under the colophon on fol. 239v, by Elisha Finzi: החומש הזה עם א מקרא מעשרים וארבה עם המסורת מכתיבת יד הסופר ר שמואל בר יצחק דמרינה ס"ט בקלף בשנת ... מישת אלפים רנ"א במתא אישבונה הם מה שבשארו בידי אלישע פנצי יצו מרכוש הרבה שהניחו בידי . Owner's signature of Naftali ha-Leṿi on fol. 2r: נפתלי הלוי (seventeenth-century hand). Owner's signature on fol. 2r: "questo libro de la [...] Anna Levi nate Linchette (Pinchelle?)". Above this inscription another one by Anna partially erased. Ownership (?) note in Hebrew from 5264(?) (1503 or 1504) with the name of the owner erased on fol. 2r. Censor's signature on fol. 238r: "Gio. Dom[eni]co Vistorini 1609".
It was bought in 1852 from Mr. Coombe for £12.
Record Sources
Availability
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