Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

MS. Bodley Or. 18

Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental

Contents

Miscellany

1. ff. 1r-130v
Book of Psalms תהלים

Divided into 169 sections. Lated hand added latin incipits and chapter numbers.

Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 131r-162r
Shir ha-Yiḥud and Shir ha-kavod שיר היחוד ושיר הכבוד

Attirbuted in the MS to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid (fol. 162v)

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 162
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

21 quires: i 6, ii-viii 8, ix 4, x-xx 8, xxi 10 no signatures illustrated catchwords at the end of quires

Layout

Text in one column.

Hand(s)

Sephardi square script.

Decoration

illustrated and decorated catchwords

Two deer at the end of the codex on fol. 162v

A few marginal illustrations by a later hand (the same hand that added the latin marginal notes)

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, marble paper pastedowns.

History

Origin: [Ashkenaz]; [14th century]

Provenance and Acquisition

Belonged to the manuscript collection of Dr Edward Bernard (1638-1696/7, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in St John's College, Oxford.

Bought from Dr Edward Bernard's widow in 1698 (see, Summary Catalogue, vol. III, p. 1)

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 107, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 107, 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 16171

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 107.
    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. 107.

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