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MS. Kennicott 3

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Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot

Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls with masorah magna and parva

Hafṭarot with Targum for Pesah and Shavuot. Masorahs are missing from Haftarah Pesah to end.

The Masorah is written by the same hand throughout the whole MS.

The colophon on fol. 239v (end of Five Scrolls) is not by the scribe, but by the vocalizer-Masorete.

Colophon: On fol.239v: "ביום החמישי באחד לחדש אדר שנת חמשים ותשעה חמשת אלפים וחמשים ותשעה נשלמה מלאכת הנקוד והמסורה מן חמש זה ... כתוב יהודית ומתורגם ארמית ... ר’ שמואל ב"ר משה הלוי ... ‬אני יוסף ב"ר יצחק נקדתי ומסרתי זה החומש לר’ שמואל ... הלוי ... בעיר קרצייא". In the margin there is added in small script: "לבד מנקדת ספר הראשון"

Fols. 296-297 were added later.

Language(s): Hebrew

Illuminted initial-word panels, floral borders, masorah in micrographic design (e.g., fols. 41v, 241r

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: f.297, small folio
Dimensions (other):
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

punctuated Sephardi square script in 2 columns Written by Yosef ben Yitshak for R. Shmuel ben R. Mosheh ha-Levi at

Binding

Dark brown leather binding, blind tooled.

History

Origin: קרצייא or קרינייא [Ashkenaz]; 1299

Provenance and Acquisition

Date of birth entered Censors' signatures: Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto 1618 (fol. 297r); Clemente Renatto, Fra. Hipp[olitu]s Ferr[arens]is, Luigi da Bologna (fol. 297v). Ownership note at the beginning of the MS: "לה’ הארץ ומלואה אשר חנן אלקים את עבדו ונתן לי גם את זה נאום נחמיה בכמ’ יעקב יודא הלוי רי"ב אדיל קינד ומבית מונטיקייער", "ביום ג’ ר"ח אדר שצ"ג קנה כמהח"ר משה דוד זלמן זה החומש מקלף עם א’ מחזור מקלף מכמ"ר דוד מרצארו יצ"ו." Long list of purchases of the MS at the beginning of the MS, mostly illegible. Neubauer's reading: Mathatiyah ben Avraham מונטייל sold it on Tuesday the 5th of Av 5230 [1470] at בשיפיאנה on the טניר and Po, to Meshulam ben Yosef; witnesses, Mosheh ben Eliyah(?), Yitshak ben David... (obliterated). Mosheh David זלמן(?) bought it from David מרצארו on Tuesday, rosh hodesh Adar 5393 [1633]; witnesses, Yehiel Nahman, Mosheh of Ravenna ben R. Yosef, David Gallico. Shlomoh Hay ben R. David אבינדאנה (fol.1r). Nehemiah ben R. Yaakov Yehudah ha-Levi זלהה ריב אדילקינר ומבית מונטיקייער (flyleaf).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2325., Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 2325. 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)

Bibliography

    Kennicott, Benjamin, Dissertatio generalis in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum: cum variis lectionibus, ex codicibus manuscriptis et impressis. Recudi curavit et notas adiecit Paulus Iacobus Bruns. Brunovici: Orphanotrophei, 1783.
    A. Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford 1886), no.2325.
    Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue). Oxford 1994. no. 2325.
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