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MS. Reggio 4

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Aaron ben Joseph's commentaries on the Bible

1. ff. 1r-221v
Aaron ben Joseph, ha-Levi, approximately 1235-אהרן בן יוסף הקראי, Sefer ha-Mivḥar ספר המבחר

With commentaries mostly by Mordekhai ben Nisan ha-ḳaṭan ha-Ṭurḳi ( "מרדכי בע"ס מאמר מרדכי במאו’ כמוהר"ר ניסן הקטן הטרוקי"

The scribe was Yeshuʿah Yosef ben Mosheh ha-Melamed.

Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 223r-265v
Aaron ben Joseph, ha-Levi, approximately 1235-אהרן בן יוסף הקראי, Commentaries on the Former Prophets פרוש נביאים ראשונים

With commentaries mostly by Mordekhai ben Nisan ha-ḳaṭan ha-Ṭurḳi ( "מרדכי בע"ס מאמר מרדכי במאו’ כמוהר"ר ניסן הקטן הטרוקי"

Colophon: Colophon of the scribe Yeshuʿah Yosef ben Mosheh ha-Melamed dated AM [5]586 on fol. "פה בקה"ק קוקיזוב סמוך לעיר לבוב, ותהי השלמת כתיבתי ... י"ז לר"ח מנחם בשנת תקפ"ו לפ"ק, הקט’ ישועה יוסף בלא"א ... משה המלמד"
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 268
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals. Fols. i, 222, and 266-268 are blank.

Collation

Binding is too tight to see the structure of the collation. no signatures catchwords on every verso.

Layout

Text in one column.

Hand(s)

Karaite-Ashkenazi semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Decorated title page.

Binding

Quarter bound.

History

Origin: Kukizów (near Lviv, Poland); 1826

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. 245, Catalogueof the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 245), 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 16381

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 245.
    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. 245.
    Kizilov, Mikhail, The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 348.
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