MS. Bodley Or. 18
Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental
Contents
Miscellany
Divided into 169 sections. Lated hand added latin incipits and chapter numbers.
Attirbuted in the MS to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid (fol. 162v)
Physical Description
Collation
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
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
Availability
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