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Ṿikuaḥ ha-dat (Magen Faritsol) by Abraham Farissol

ff. 1r-28v
Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai, approximately 1451-approximately 1525פריצול, אברהם בן מרדכי, Ṿikuaḥ ha-dat (Magen Faritsol) ויכוח הדת (מגן פריצול)

Polemical treatise.

Contains only the first 33 chapters.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 28
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Layout

Text in one column.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cusive script.

Decoration

Not decorated.

Binding

Dark brown leather binding.

History

Origin: [Europe]; [17th century]

Provenance and Acquisition

Apparently acquired about 1680 (see Summary Catalogue).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2166, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2166, 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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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 19980

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2166.
    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. 2166.

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