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MS. Reggio 51

Oriental Manuscripts Reggio Collection

Contents

Miscellany

1. ff. 2r-7v
Saʿadia ben Joseph, 882-942(debated authorship); סעדיה בן יוסף, אלפיומי, (מיוחס לו) ‬, Sidur Rasag סדור רס"ג

The manuscript was copied by Yehoshuaʿ Heshel Shor. According to Ś. Assaf (1941), it is not by Saʿadia gaon.

Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 8r-19v
Sefer Yetsirah ספר יצירה

The manuscript was copied by Yehoshuaʿ Heshel Shor.

Sefer Yetsirah (ff. 9r-10r) followed by the commentary attributed to Abu-Sahl Dunash ben Tamim (ff. 11r-19v).

Language(s): Hebrew

fol. 11v is blank.

3. ff. 20r-32r
Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270; משה בן נחמן, 1194-1270, Derashot ha-Ramban (Sermons by Nahmanides) דרשות הרמב"ן

The manuscript was copied by Yehoshuaʿ Heshel Shor.

Language(s): Hebrew
4. ff. 34r-38r
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204; משה בן מימון, Perush ha-Mishnah le-Rambam (Pereḳ ḥeleḳ) פרוש המשנה לרמב"ם (פרק חלק)

The manuscript was copied by Yehoshuaʿ Heshel Shor.

Language(s): Hebrew
5. ff. 39r-41r
ʿOlam ḳaṭan עולם קטן

The manuscript was copied by Yehoshuaʿ Heshel Shor.

Incipit: "האדם עולם קטן כיצד כל מה שברא הקב"ה בעולמו ברא באדם, רקיע כנגד ראשו של אדם"
Language(s): Hebrew
6. ff. 42r-46v
Moses, of Narbonne, -1362; נרבוני, משה בן יהושע, Igeret ʿal shiʿur ḳomah אגרת על שעור קומה
Language(s): Hebrew
7. ff. 47r-49v
Seder tanaʾim סדר התנאים
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 52
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil from right to left. Earlier foliation in Arabic numerals in ink from left to right (in the lower margin). The latter is not in accord with the later foliation in pencil, but starts at 36 (that is fol. 52) and ends at 89 (that is fol. 1). In addition, the Sidur has its first and last leaves numbered in Arabic numbers. In addition, earlier Hebrew pagination in ink of the different works starting with the Commentary on the Sefer Yetsirah is an exception.

Collation

no signatures no catchwords

Condition

Good condition.

Hand(s)

Rashi script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

Binding

Half bound, marble paper.

History

Origin: [Europe]; [before 1853]

Provenance and Acquisition

The MS was purchased from Schorr in 1853.

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. 2250), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 2250, 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 20533

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2250.
    Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age (Paris : J. Vrin, 1927),vol. XXI, pp. 194, 196, 197, 198, 204
    סדור רב סעדיה גאון : כתאב גאמע אלצלואת ואלתסאביח / יוצא לאור על ידי ישראל דודזון, שמחה אסף, יששכר יואל (ירושלים : מקיצי נרדמים, תש"א)
    Altmann, Alexander, Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1967), 225-288.
    Altmann, Alexander, Von Der Mittelalterlichen Zur Modernen Aufklarung: Studien Zur Judischen Geistesgeschichte (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism) (Tübingen : Mohr, 1987), 154.
    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. 2250.
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