MS. Bodley Or. 802

Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental

Pentateuch (Gen.-Lev. 3:1-)

ff. 1r-97v

Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch (Gen.-Lev. 3:1-) תורה (בראשית-ויקרא ג:א)

Second part of a three-volume Bible (Bodl. Or. 803, Bodl. Or. 804)

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ff. 97

Dimensions (leaf): × mm.

Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals and in Hebrew characters.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves. no signatures some catchwords at the end of quires

Layout

Text mostly in four columns.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script.

Decoration

Micrography

Carmina figurata

Binding

Brown leather binding, gold-tooled, coat of arms of Westminster School (?): a cross flory between five martlets, on a chief quarterly France and England between two roses (see Summary Catalogue)

History

Origin: [Germany?]; [ca. 1300]

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from Isaac Abendana in 1668 for £37, a sum which perhaps included other Hebrew MSS (ch., S.C.).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 3, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 3, 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.

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 33012

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.

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2.

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. 2.

Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University