MS. Oppenheim Add. 8° 10
Oriental Manuscripts Oppenheim Collection
Contents
ff. 1r-120v
Hebrew Bible: Book of Psalms ('Oxford Hispano-Portuguese Psalter') כתובים (תהלים) Language(s): Hebrew
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 120
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 90 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
15 quires of 8 leaves, no catchwords.
Hand(s)
Sephardi square script.
Decoration
Microgaphical decorations inc. carpet pages (e.g. fols. 1v, 2r, 40v, 120r)
Penwork decoration (e.g. fol. 31v, 73r).
Binding
Nineteenth-century brown calf binding, rebound in-house.
History
Origin: [Spain (Lisbon?)]; [late 15th century]
Provenance and Acquisition
It was most probably part of the Heidenhem purchase acquired in 1864 (see Summary Catalogue).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, (No. 109, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 109, 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.
Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 109.
Narkiss, Bezalel, Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the British Isles : a catalogue raisonné (Oxford : Published by the Oxford University Press for the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the British Academy , 1982), no. 56
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. 109.