MS. Reggio 23
Oriental Manuscripts Reggio Collection
Contents
Extracts from philosophical and kabbalistic works and novellae
ff. 1r-201v
, 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.
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.