Collection of astronomical texts
5. ff. 57r-102v
Perush luḥot Paras פרוש לוחות פריס Language(s): Hebrew
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 102
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Continuous foliation in Arabic numerals. Individual paginations in Hebrew characters of different sections (fols. 1v-9r: 16 pages, fols. 17v-30r: 26 pages, fols. 44r-56r: 25 pages), fols. 57-102: Hebrew foliation (fols. 1-46)
Collation
10 quires: i 8, ii?, iii?, iv 10, v 8, vi-vii 10, viii-x 8. Structure of quires ii and iii is unclear. no signatures, catchwords on almost every verso.
Layout
Main text in one columns, notes, commentaries are inserted into it or written in the margins.
Hand(s)
Sephardi cursive script
Fols. 5r-102r: Sephardi cursive script.
Fols. 1v-4v: Sephardi semi-cursive script.
Decoration
Not decorated.
Binding
Parchment binding
Origin: [North Africa]; [early 17th century?]
Provenance and Acquisition
It belonged to Rabbi Isaac Samuel Reggio's (1784-1855) library, which was purchased en bloc by the Bodleian Library in 1853.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. i, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2022, Catalogueof the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 2022), 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 19307
Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2022.
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. 2022.