MS. Bodley Or. 597
Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental
Contents
Commentary on the Pentateuch by Abraham ibn Ezra
ff. 1r-275v
, Commentary on the Pentateuch פרוש התורה לראב"ע Colophon: Colophon (fol. 273r): נשלם על ידי ... צ"ו בן הצדיק ר' ... תנצב"ה בשמת [ה] אלפים ושבעים ואחד לבריאת עולם כ"ח ימים בשבט שהוא אלף ומתאים וארבעים ושלשה לחרבן הבית המקדש שיבנה במהרה בימינו לאחי ... הרחמן... קבלתי המעות מידו משלם" Name of scribe and his brother the patron have been deleted. Dated 1311.
Language(s): Hebrew
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 276
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
The order of the first three leaves were corrected in 1968.
Layout
Text in one column.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script.
Binding
Light brown leather binding.
History
Origin: [Italy]; 1311
Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscription(?) in Hebrew on fol. 276r. Censors' signatures: "Fra. Hipp[olitus] Ferr[arens[is] Minorita purgavit ... librum 28 februarij 1601" (fol. 276v); Ceasar Belliosus, his signature is faded away, hardly legible.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 222, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 222, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
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Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 222.
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. 222.