Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

MS. Reggio 23

Oriental Manuscripts Reggio Collection

Contents

Extracts from philosophical and kabbalistic works and novellae

ff. 1r-201v
Allemanno, Johanan ben Isaac, approximately 1435-approximately 1504אלמנו, יוחנן בן יצחק, Extracts from various philosohpical and kabbalistic works and various novellae לקוטים בקבלה ובפילוסופיה וחדושים שונים

Autograph

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 202
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals and in Hebrew characters.

Collation

No signatures, no catchwords.

Layout

Main text is in one column; numerous marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

Binding

Parchment binding.

History

Origin: Mantua and Florence; ca. 1478-1504

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription: אי"ש ג"ר (fol. 201v)

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. 2234, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 2234, 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.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 20517

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2234.
    Novak, B. C. "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Jochanan Alemanno", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 45, (1982): 125-147
    Fishbane, Michael, ed., The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), 224-225.
    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. 2234.
    Lelli, Fabrizio, "The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought", in Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance: Sources and Encounters, ed. Ilana Zinguer et al. (Leuden: Brill, 2011), 196.

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