BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES, - Islamic manuscripts

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES,

of the

of 10 leaves each (with the exception of the

which only has 8 leaves)

;

and of the two and another

25),

i

book of Proverbs, are those known as

The Arabic

translation

of the

Song

of

Songs agrees with the version published by Merx as " Die Saadjaniscbe Uebersetzung,"

last quire only the

leaf

Ecclesiastes, fol. 1866,

Sa'adyah's.

but

of the first quire only the last three leaves (foil.

;

wanting parts of the last chapter. The Arabic translation and commentary of the Psalms, as also the Arabic translation

Paper, about 10} in. by 8|, cona page. sisting of 275 leaves, with 24 lines to The quires, 29 in number, consisted originally

Or. 1302.

h quire

154a

of Songs, fol.

166.

near the end

fol. 275) have been (foil. 27374, lacuna, Foil. 253, 274, and 275 are preserved.

Hebrew

and the portion of Commentary given on also forms part pp. 34, 35 of Merx's edition of

the

comments contained

this

in

MS.

There on the upper margin of the first and tin.- lower margin of the last page of a quire. Yemenite square character of the fourteenth

Jacob Loevy (Magazin fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthum's, 1883, p. 33 sqq.) has, however, made it probable that the present translation can only be looked upon as a

to fifteenth century.

later recension of Sa'adyah's work.

are signatures in

imperfect. letters

Bacher

The books

Ruth, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes the Hebrew of Song Songs, text, provided with the simple superlinear a transpunctuation, and accompanied by of

:

lation

and commentary

in

Arabic (written in

The commentary is character). wanting in the book of Proverbs. Ruth, the and Ecclesiastes have also the of

the

Hebrew

Song

Songs,

The Arabic

is

p.

But 202

see sqq.

and Commentary

by Judah ibn Gajjath. The fragment of Ruth (the Commentary being mainly in Hebrew) begins isy ID Nteio TON p:n TDK rwte r#? :

"?3

but rarely used, and the pointing

translation

iii.,

of Ecclesiastes agree with those made known J. Loevy (1884) as the work of Isaac b.

Targum provided with the simple superlinear The HSi (i) is frequently punctuation. marked both in the Hebrew and the Aramaic, is

in Stade's Zeitschrift,

At

onm

">p

nMi

nnn mnvrb no

the end, a piece beginning

:

to be noticed.

Ruth, Psalms,

fol.

fol.

2a,

wanting ch.

96; Proverbs,

fol.

i.

1

ii.

12

;

1236; Song

Comp. Steinschneider's Berlin Cat., no. 129, also Neub., Bodl. Cat., no. 2484.

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

124

At the end

of the Psalms

ment with the usual Masorah (Ginsburg,

:

wm n^wni nTDsra xsy ND on

rnyo

(.>)iron

123a)

(fol.

rmrn

1

rvnnVi ro-D ? nat

vol.

p.

453a)

:

bv DpiD'sn DIDD

rrtPDm Dainty nt 130

pv

KNTI

ii.,

t

t

The following division into

sections, marked

with the letter D and the respective number in the- margin, occurs in the books of Psalms

and Proverbs 1.

rwom niND yvn

236; n, xxv., xxxv.,

a,

xlii., fol.

fol.

536; y,

ia,

Ixxiii.,

xvii., fol. fol.

416; fol.

Ixxx.,

as

xc., fol.

i,

xxx.,

xxxviii.,

ri,

57a; T,

65a;

v,

736;

rr,

njiaty riiDi

i, xx., fol.

196;

xlviii., fol.

'>,

Ixv., fol.

fol.

r,

27a;

34a;

fol.

T>

:

:

Psalms

j,

Another hand has added the number of and number of Dmo in the book of Proverbs at the end, fol. 1536 verses, middle verse,

fol.

30a

;

fol.

38a

;

456;

Headings of the books 1.

Psalms,

96

fol.

:

:

own

616;

fol.

696;

fol.

Ixxxvi.,

1

i!

11

mizo See Steinsch.,

lines

:

TU

now

*

yay

matwn mi

?N TXP' HD31

fy

"?3

DDT

r^-nia^N Nin N::NDT

fol.

237a

is

quires of 10 leaves each, provided with sigHebrew letters (j "D) on the last

Foil. page, and also marked by catchwords. 15 are the remaining leaves of the 2nd 7

6 have been added later to

supply the deficiency at the beginning ; and the folding of foil. 236242 is uncertain.

Foil.

1273).

7237

foil.

teenth, and

1

sixteenth foil. 7,

A.M. 5033

is

239242 foil.

be French.

The (A.D.

MS. was accordingly

in^n-n

finished

II. A fragment of W3JH nna ppTl 13D, an ethical treatise of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, translated from the Arabic into Hebrew by Yehudah Ibn Tibbon. Written in a fine Italian Rabbinic hand of the fourteenth

The last three of the four extant century. leaves (foil. 239 242) are badly mutilated. Heading

:

D'aunn nyi ty t^3jn

6 are probably of the Several leaves, as e.g.

"\

nna

iipvi

praiarr HID^BH DDnn la^r

century. 207, are mutilated.

Rashi's

Genesis, cus,

ynn iyin Nin

on the 3rd day of the 4th month, A.M. 5033 (A.D. 1273), by Joseph ben R. David for Benjamin ben R. Isaac.

belong to the four-

[ALM. COLL., no. 26.] I.

:

'& &*bx ntyan a^n n'? >j tn T

This

natures in

to

the following colophon

mv

'3

Vellum, about 9f in. by 7$, consisting of 242 leaves, with 28 to 36 lines Foil. 16 to a page. 235 form 22 complete

date of

mpn

^KTI vmpn ro^a

op. cii., xx., 10, 63.

The writing appears

rmttoi

TO*

1ND1

Add. 26,917.

1

rrtana

'

umn

vru

On

168.

foil.

arna

TTO ^nrf? JTO

wn

i;nt

quire;

rhymed

connection with ch.

in

['"?]

of

which are prefixed to the Comon are as follows Exodus mentary

mentary on Joshua on foil. 1056, 130a, 1436. A reference to his commentary on Judges (ny:m tw^B nxp) is found on fol. 96. That the author of the commentary was acquainted with Palestine follows from what (fol.

number

and similar shorter verses are found

The

(inDSD ?^ Vitt, rpnp-^N yin, &c.). Isaac ben Samuel refers to his own com-

he says v. 6 :-

four books the

first

after the weekly pericopes.

1

ties

the

scribe wrote a certain

Besides the above-named individual authori-

the

of

fol.

Commentary on the Pentateuch

la; Exodus, 1196; Numbers,

fol.

teronomy,

fol.

199a.

fol. fol.

:

56a; Leviti156; Deu-

On the

the margin of

name W$p D^n

foil,

la and 2a appears

^DV, apparently that of

a former owner.

Censor

(fol.

2396)

:

Dominico

(or Gerosolomitano?), 1597.

Fresolo

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES.

At the end (fol. 288a), prn in large letters, within which the same sentence as at the

169. Vellum, about lOf in. by 8, consisting of 311 leaves (including the three paper leaves at the beginning), with 22 to 29 lines to a page. Partly two columns. Square and Rabbinic character. German writing of

Harley, 1861.

Some

the thirteenth to fourteenth century. of the headings are illuminated. It contains

The Pentateuch, with the Targum and Rashi's Commentary. Genesis,

end of the Pentateuch, the

fol.

46

Exodus,

;

576

fol.

1321

Leviti-

;

Deutero-

Numbers, nomy, fol. 178o. At the end of the Pentateuch (fol. 219a) TV dryh "?) orn n ? pr vh ision prnroi pin fol.

;

;

scribe's

name

Abraham.

being given as

IV. The book of Job, accompanied by Rashi's Commentary. Fol. 289a. Fol. 3076 contains 2 Chron. xxiv. 5 ; 1 Ki. viii.

27

cents

is

Gen. xix.

pointed and accentuated, the names of the accents being written over the lines. The use of the ac-

:

I.

cus, fol. lOla

129

;

16,

intended to be illustrated in this way.

308a contains the benedictions that are said before and after the reading of the Fol.

Haftaroth.

V. Megillath Antiochus in Hebrew, with Fol. 309.

vowel-points.

Compare the printed

:

editions.

1

obn irax npjr

The same formula same page at the end

"izra

a'nDa

non

n"?y

repeated on the of the Targum and of is

the Commentary. II.

The

Rashi's

five

:

by

Megilloth, accompanied

of

Songs, fol. 220a; Ruth, fol. 2236; Lamentations, fol. 226a; Ecclesiastes, fol. 23 la Esther, fol. 239a. of Lamentations

Ps. cxxxvii.,

is

which (on fol. 230a, evidently a later there are some lines, beginning ror leaf) TBDTI nt ^IQ, which give in acrostics the after

:

name III.

The

The Haftaroth

for the whole year (in to a page). Fol. 245a.

Haftaroth are accompanied Rashi's by Commentary, and the Haftaroth for Passover and Pentecost have the Targum. first five

At the head for the first

following

of the

Targum

day of Passover

to the Haftiirah

(fol.

2824)

D"?IV

Heading

On

16):-

(fol.

n:m

taa

.

omcran nb

.

the inner sides of each cover a leaf

T3N niEsnn to *:U "

TON

in, belonging to what appears to have been a Latin Law Dictionary (apparently of

pasted

the sixteenth century).

ywr

following entries are found in the MS.

of former

owners

:

On

fol.

1

Humfredi

Liber

:

U

On 3pr

fol.

3076 1

entry)

:

1DV,

Wanley,

TNQ

'1

13

same hand)

:

TNO p TND

D"n,

11

the

in

(all

in

pr N ? ision

remark under

.

.

(below the latter But see the pin.

in.

On

fol.

On

fol.

3106 :-

nn

0131/1

KTIB

is

the

is

:

-QJTNI

on

3a contain (in a cursive Italian Psalms which are liturgiwith the weekly pericopes cally connected and the services of the feasts and fasts.

The

two columns

oto:i "

hand) a list of the

;

At the end

'

1

Foil. 16

Commentary.

The Song

At the end " irrjr TK' cbyi /vnwa imn "wn " ? ion ay oVua nyiiyn iyn.ni ft

1 and the whole

Haftarah of "irwn. The MS. breaks

off at

is by

marked by 333; the beginning is distinguished by the large ornamental cha-

teuch

is

racters of the first word, together with a

pen and ink design, usually representing the figure

more

of a dragon. elaborate design

A

is

similar, but rather

used at the begin-

ning of a book. The beginning of each of the five Megilloth and of each Haftarah is distinguished by the large, and mostly ornamental, characters of the first word. The commentary is often arranged

mainly

in ornamental designs of different kinds.

Masoretic

notes

are

frequently

especially in the Pentateuch.

accompanied by Rashi's Commentary.

On

;

in the

Haftarah for Win IWT1 nitP. The end of a weekly section in the Penta-

with Targum the five Megilloth and the Haftaroth: all provided with vowel-points and accents, and It contains the Pentateuch,

Dnpn

Not

all

added,

the Haftaroth are in agreement

printed Ashkenazi arrangement. the margin of fol. 3186, against a'NV?n

with the

.

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. (Haft, for K2n), is the following note (apparently in the same Rabbinic hand as

the Commentary)

On

masn

IT

DHTDK

3686 (end of Haft, of -QTO3) vwsa N ?, but the Haft, for /noa as given in the MS. is the one generally :

1

appointed for '>r_. At the eud of Deuteronomy, on is the following in large characters

*?i2W nsnon scribe's fuller

name

before

rw

VHiav

It

is

but

160

is

it

is

no more

nomy,

Commentary on the Pentateuch:

Exodus, fol. 52a Leviti99a; Numbers, fol. 1296; Deutero-

fol.

looa.

On

fol.

1766

TND

iry^M Si

we

read

:

pror S rin

ra

179. Vellum, about 8^ in. by 6J, consisting of 636 leaves, with 20 lines of the square writing in the body of a page. The quires, mostly of 8 leaves each, are marked by catchwords at the end. German square and Rabbinic character of probably the first Or. 2696.

Illuminated headings with letters of gold within. Ginsburg, 49. N. RABINOWITZ, Dec. 8, 1883.] [R. later date.

Vellum, about 10|. in. by 8f, Quires nearly all consisting .of 176 leaves. of 8 leaves each. Two columns, with 37 lines in each column. Franco-German hand of the fourteenth century.

fol.

:

half of the fourteenth century. Foil. 6196 6366 are in different hands of partly about the same, and partly (foil. 6196, 6206) of a

Add. 22,122.

cus,

the

would

178.

;

of

D-'W -\\ybx Si nrraN

in the

sufficiently legible.

2a

German writing

rrcrzn,

a contract, probably refer-

ing to the sale of the MS., which

fol.

in

wbv

:

Genesis,

names

pm

At the end of the Haft, for Passover, the word pm is made up of minute letters (giving the colophon "Ot rrosa /moan ia^w), but neither name nor date are given there.

Rashi's

ecclesiastical law) at the beginning of the volume, and another fragment of the same MS. at the end contains the following

the date of

writing (which appears unlikely), answer to A.D. 1400.

is

MS. (on

:

possible

form of numerals

if

the date ("Warschau, 7 Februarij 1816"), occurs on a fragment of an ancient Latin

D'piDSn

:

thus repeating the

2726

H.

The same entry, with the addition of the name of the person (not sufficiently and legible) to whom the book was given

fifteenth to sixteenth century

we should read number of verses

;

272a,

:

3116)

(fol.

Immediately ror oncncn rwa iop TTIDJO.

fol.

Jos.

:

given in a note

is

this

fol.

ptn

'm -arm p

xr D'Tr

On

the following entry

Andenken der Freundschaft von

other

yaw

at the end of the Megilloth

that instead of

is

Sim. Halberstamm.

fol.

The

la there

fol.

:

uatro

rnai

On

135

;

The Pentateuch, the

and the Haftaroth, provided with vowel-points and accents, and accompanied by the Masorah Rashi's Commentary Magna and Parva. five Megilloth,

throughout in the outer margin. I. Pentateuch :

Genesis,

fol.

3a; Exodus,

fol.

1046; Leviti-

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

136 fol.

cus,

nomy,

195a; Numbers,

The

Megilloth :-

five

Song of Songs, fol. 439a [compare the opening of Rashi's Commentary with the printed text] Ruth, fol. ;

452(i fol.

Lamentations, fol. 4586; Ecclesiastes, 4666 [no Masorah to this book]. ;.

III.

The Haf taroth of the weekly sections, and

of the feasts

and

fasts.

Fol.487a.

Alternate Haftaroth to those in the text on

and OTJ3 "13 have been added by a hand on foil. 6196, 620a. Marginal notes on foil. 5226, 5526, draw the reader's bnpl

'n3

later

26 attention to these changes (1 Ki. vii. 13 and 1 Ki. xviii. 46 xix. 21, those in the text being 1 Ki. vii. 51 viii. 10 and Jer. i.

1

ii.

:

Leading portions of the prayers for the Sabbath, beginning (on fol. 62 la) with ---n'Q'S" 'K'n, and ending D'T /l^ZM ^V "OlS'l (on fol. 6306) with JTlwm nWD^ "Ot (in epiD^. l

Fragment of a small

2.

treatise containing

notes on the punctuation, &c., of certain words in the pericopes of the Pentateuch. This was,

perhaps, written by Mordecai ben Hayyim, It extends the punctuator and annotator. over the entire fol. 631, and the margins of foil.

632a

633a.

Beginning rspiD irrco (i.e.

:

vr>

p

\v

Nin

"?3

p

*

DDIIID

ypa

nns) p3 an

iop

It ends in notes

on

3).

The punctuator and Masoretic annotator was Mordecai ben Hayyim ^DrUON. At the end of Genesis

(fol.

ru3on

'zorrjQN

At the end

of

1046) he wrote

poom

Numbers

(fol.

"jN-an ai^rr

iy np: ? IPN

-mo

D*O

pron

onn

mp:n na^i

:oity

ON

His name

Deuteronomy (fol.

is

nnn

*

ipoi IDID

accents.

1

ppjni

signed at the end of 422a), and of the Hafta-

of Rashi's

the last-named page 3DD "V3ni

Commentary on

the end:

On

headed

pDD

in the margin). The references to the

Codex inn', contained in the Masorah of the MS., have been published by Dr. Ginsburg in the appendix to his edition of the Masorah. no^l,

There are and jn.

(without accents), of the scribe of this

name

63466366

foil.

a

is

portion

:

worn

Esther, as e.g. on fol. 4256 (where ppj is added in the margin) and fol. 4266 (with

IND^ nonnnn,

Q""n

KJ^ipipl.

b^b ziixpn

"?:n

bn VD /ruo

The punctuator and Masoretic annotator has marked the name omo in the book of

^

o

part.

.-.

rwQ,

1

tibi ?

as to illustrate the use of the

so

:

also references to e.g.

:

apparently the

4.

619a).

Below the end

At

633a the verses 2 Chron. 27, and Ezek. xxxix. 9,

viii.

unananrr

-p-ai

noa ?!

p'rd

632a

foil.

followed by

also

(foil.

On

xxiv. 5, 1 Ki.

marked

ora

:ipty "?pa3 (?)ovrr

nisi a^n

"?N

the side:

inv 3.

11-12

3446) :-

op

On

:

pp:n o~nn

1

roth

the following

1.

423a;

fol.

Esther,

6366 contain

621a

Foil.

appended pieces

345a.

fol.

II.

2576; Deutero-

fol.

It begins

HD3 bw.

^K ? wnso IDT

with J1WI3

The

rwipn -no

1

last

^^D

clause

('131

is

chrib 'DN

minn imp^ ny At the end

is

the following

:

nun *tyn

jvrajra

^3

nnp ? n 1

Dipo

'3J

no

-in3

virwn

pa

"

iJ

'nyiarr

7TN13

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. On

fol.

owner "I

'V

la

'ITT

sale

nbnND'S H3

rw

1

ps ?

rijrvi

of Or. 2230, and it is there also stated that the whole was written crisou rprro ison ppvi by ]3 in'jrw TpYTJffTO tOD 71131 tTW "Q plpTI -(

The name

K"?O

nnsn

yrm tn p

scribe

;

A

nron or vorrpi

v nye xrin

in.

On the

Arabic writing.

1886

number

On

fol.

a Masoretic statement on

is

of verses, pericopes, &c.

189fl

onmrr

:

i\s

HOW

niinn

01

ibn

la of Or. 2228,

fol.

After this nt

now

iran

1

nnp ?

man

nsi

JIN

:

DIP

r>3

nro nbyoai

rwo "noK irrnni

narisin

noun

rrnjnn 1

obiy ? pis

pi no** imini

184. Or. 4838. Paper, about 12} in. by 9, conYemenite square and sisting of 214 leaves. Rabbinic character, indifferently written.

,'hteenth century. So, no cloubt, originally.

by ome

ben

The two

letters J"I71

falsified into J~\ to

make

it

have

appear person to lure been written A.Gr. 1566 instead of 1966.

This part consists of Biblical verses with an Arabic translation (Hebrew character), followed

by Ps. xxix.;

a

piece beginning

TWNin (giving the names of the Parashiyyoth in the Pentateuch,) with an 1

INT'K? T ? iron

These three must be Onkelos, Sa'adyah, and Rashi.

The term ttHTS

,

in its usual sense, can, however, only

apply to Rashi.

T2

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

140

Aramaic translation the genealogy of Moses and several Scripture verses. ;

Colophon

(fol.

rra"Dnn

rurn rrniN

"

'Kron DV

yvm

?yir it

roty

njip"?i

mirn nw

mNsn

JTVBSI

inn njty rra;D Nnn m*p^ npnn n:^ N ms n:nn ON ^BDI

Tysn noNtp^N yiTn

min

^

o

noun '3

n^n

'i7iy

arranged groups (beginning -CDS, tyzuiN, DDK, DI^N, p^ aiMT tn 1

Below the Targum

comthe books of

collection

ments on passages Samuel and Kings.

1

H?

by 5j ,

lines to a

last.

:

1

in.

page, and marked with catchwords Imperfect at the beginning and

first

on the

Minor Prophets, below

of the

Vellum, about 8 225 leaves, with 23

page. Twenty-eight quires, nos. 2 29, of 8 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters on

It contains

On

Dora.

Gio.

2a.

the end.

Prophets.

the

per

column,

page.

At

:

three lines on

(generally in designs) is written on the outer part of the

pp'/r

2674)

(fol.

the upper and four on the lower margin of a column of text. The Targum forms the

inner

sixteenth

Vistorini, 1609.

distinguished by large orna-

is

of the

^isyvffi)

century.

The beginnings of the Haftaroth are frequently marked in the margin. The D'~nD are marked by D. The opening word of each book

and

2565;

141

1846; Amos, fol. 1866; Obadiah, fol. 193o ; Jonah, fol. 194o Micah, fol. lQ7a Nahum, fol. 2026; Habakkuk, fol. 2056;

fol.

;

;

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

142

2100 ; Haggai, -fol. 2116 ; 2136 ; Malachi (imperfect at

fol.

Zephaniah,

Zechariah, fol. the end), fol. 225a.

Heading

of Isaiah

the date mentioned, by Moses ben R. Joshua Merkis. The name of the copyist occurs again at

Commentary on

end of the

the :

fol.

bx

pity

Esther,

236.

On

10a the

fol.

first

eleven lines are a

twelve lines on fol. 9a\ repetition of the first mistake in the folhis excuses The copyist

Subscription of Isaiah:

lowing note

:

na vibnnm TUN

raw

m/o ? yap ^yi n^ai D 1

Subscription of Jeremiah

:

iDN3

ovn

rroT TV3

^

mini Headin

of Ezekiel

jrcnrp

ia nura tain INDI

"noyn

:

^tn

nto

*

-ram nhft

'rrmD

" I have strayed like a lost sheep and commenced to write what I have already

no fixed place to write, and am obliged to move from my place a hundred times by day and by The day is for night. And of me it is said work, and the night is for watching.' Moses ben R. Joshua (blessed be his memory) says Here is the beginning of this column.' written, just because I have

189.

'

:

Vellum, about 10^ in. by 8, This MS. contains consisting of 235 leaves.

Harley, 150.

the following four distinct portions Foil.

I.

Two

27.

1

:

columns, 33 lines;

Folia 13-14, dated A. 264 (A.D. 1504). 17-18 belong to an older MS. Rashi's Commentary on the five Megilloth. Ecclesiastes, fol. la; Ruth,

of Songs, fol. 13a; Esther,

116; Song 216; Lamen-

fol.

fol.

:

'

'

On

15a, at the beginning of the second scribe has drawn a crown over the column, in the passage by '*7 'DNi mi ny added the foland ^ 1DN1 nwn, by fol.

T

1

T

lowing marginal note

o

:

mqyn

*

IDHI nBJsan Din

tations, fol. 236.

Colophon, /n'rnpn

fol.

27a

bn jr6wu in ? VPTOI 1

ntt?D

D

pi

Din^p

pwn

'intern

TOT nro -MN ns^i in

" Take away the tiara and remove the

:

p

JIIJTI

'wn mtjn

NE^N ntw

mtynn nsoi *?n

mm

no

pi

VWD

(?)nsija ft

o-nn nr

diadem, for princely estate Moses Merkis."

n"?nsi

Hhft

ni nwo

VTI 'N:

This portion of the MS. was accordingly written for R. Moses ben R. Mordecai, at

not

fit

for

28209.

Quires, partly of 8 and marked by catchwords. partly of 12 leaves, Two columns, 33 lines; dated Adar, A.M. II.

Foil.

5017 (A.D. 1257).

1

I013 ?

is

foolish

Rashi's

Commentary on the Former and

Latter Prophets. Joshua, fol. 286 fol.

416

;

Kings,

Jeremiah,

fol.

;

Judges,

fol.

fol.

35a

;

Samuel,

596.

796;

Ezekiel,

fol.

96a

;

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. fol.

Isaiah,

Two

1276;

Hosea, fol. 1745; Joel, Amos, fol. 184a ; Obadiah, fol. 1886; Jonah, fol. 1896; Micah, fol. 190a Nahum, fol. 1936; Habakkuk, fol. 195a ; Zephaniah, fol. 1976 Haggai, fol. 199a ; fol. 200a Zechariah, ; Malachi, fol. 207a.

183a

fol.

;

;

143

leaves at the beginning of the

numbered respectively 1* and 1.

A

2.

An

MS.,

2*, contain

:

Latin translation of the rhymes and colophon on fol. 209a.

;

The

scribe has added the following lines at

the end

(fol.

209a) viio

pr ^

in

isto

breviation

in

which the ab-

is

rrnaji njn

Zm-3 TO"D VU ''a ova mvr -i nnan p inn unn

TD

Codice,"

erroneously dissolved into " Rabbi Salomon Jarchi." ''in

Lower down on the same page the colophon:

m

eighteenth century),

(apparently

" Elenchus sive Periocha Conten-

:

torum

pmnn pm PT 131DH

index to the contents of the volume,

Latin

headed

:

:

in

131071

e]DV

VKTOKT

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Vellum, about 9f in. by 6&, consisting of 140 leaves, with 28 lines to a

Add. 22,092.

1

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13

190.

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The margin of foil. 846 to 1466 contains Commentary on the Psalms, written

page in the main portion (vide infra). Foil. 3 132 form 13 quires of 10 leaves each, with a catchword at the end of each quire.

The

three vellum leaves

first

(foil. 1*, 1, 2), are outside the regular 139,

Rashi's

as also

by a hand of apparently the 6fteenth century.

Franco-German Rabquire arrangement. binic hand ; dated A.M. 5163 (A.D. 1403).

210229. Two columns,

III. Foil.

lines

;

A

Commentary on Job, by R. Joseph

Kara

on rrn

:

mnan

'jsa

A

A work

DV6N p, being very

entitled

largely of the nature of a supercommentary on Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch.

defective at the end.

;

Beginning ->en

43 to 49

fifteenth or sixteenth century.

133

foil.

ion

N'T!

~\yn

It is

on

not

the

rrnrr jin:o,

pn 19D which

mi mys,

is quoted in and elsewhere; but it

exhibits a very striking likeness to the Jinr.3 of Yehudah ben Eliezer just mentioned

mvr

See Tan D^3,

vii.

57

and comp. the

xjg.,

text printed in Frankel's Monatschrift, voll. v.

(printed, together with /YfflDVn 'Via, under the common title DOpt J"ljn, at Livorno in

vii.

1783). I\'. L'V

Foil.

230235. Three

of the fifteenth century. the upper leaf is torn off,

2336

French hand In fol. 235 part of and the writing on

Square character.

liiH-s.

fol.

columns, 23 to

is

Leviticus

I'npointed

partly faded. vi.

18 (beginning mp22)

Hebrew

text and

ix.

9

:

Targum.

This fragment is mentioned by Bruns in " Dissertatio in Vet. Testam. Kt-nnicott's

Hebr." (Brunsvici, 1783).

It

is,

in fact, a recension of

Yehudah

ben Eliezer's work, based on an original which differed largely from the printed There is a great deal in rrnrp /TOO text. which is not in the present MS., and vice ver The two together would make up a completer .

edition.

An

Italian

hand

of the fifteenth to

sixteenth century has provided the MS. with continuous notes, mainly with a view to a collation with

rrnrr /iron,

and

also giving

extracts under the heading TTVD, &c.

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

144

For the authorities mentioned in the work see rrnrr rroa, and comp. Zunz, Z. G. u. L.,

The

Aaron and Benjamin of Canteras the bury, Berachyah of Lincoln (the same Nakdan ?), Joseph of Lincoln, and 'Din of London, occur both in the MS. and in the

Then

96

p.

ff.

similar

A

work.

printed

of

collation

is

paragraph

:

D^yi 1*033 onpp DH3T follows the omitted paragraph

nni33

At the end

"

i

:

'

col. 1):

136a,

(fol.

the

two would be interesting from more than one point of view. On the upper margin of fol. 3a (in square characters)

last

m

l

?

min

onson

See Benjacob,

i

nxii*,

357, and

p.

compare the printed text. (d)

A

small piece headed

:

:

"l/oiDa mp'

PN

nw

orkx p

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Below this (in an Italian Rabbinic hand) (1) a column headed: 'r&rb uiw onnrr l^an; (2) another column headed: Dn n^N

Beginning

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statement:

't,

DUi/m

in,

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msan; (3) the Masoretic mi/u '\ on /imp: mvy tt>an 0^333 (4) /wnn ma'? 'a'D

/mizas D"twrn0

;

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'i3i

The work

begins on

itself

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taiya

yi'iy na "?3 irn 'DN also two smaller notes on the same page. VT'N

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SIDV"?

n^n "n n^nn^

(e)

31 nt3

PINT

Moed Katon,

See ^33 nab/l, This

mm* 13

131

nc?N Ktyj

'131

20a.

followed by several other small

is

notes.

fol. 36.

Leviticus, fol. 93a ; Exodus, fol. 516 Numbers, fol. 105; Deuteronomy, fol. 1186. Colophon (fol. 1306) :;

(/)

A

list

of expressions

headed

:

i33m

'

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The

p

ovn

name

137tt

list is

:

onix

"ps^i

notes

amps

in

1*6, the following

fol.

may

be noted

(a)

njm rv>v nso nvbvz 'nm nwa xim jTjnon nasnn nniD* ^13 ona

following

'131

:

nna mt^y

ufrv lixa, imperfect at the

(2) ^"133

jro^ai njrn ni^x

"?iTi 'a^o

rb

12/1:1

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mon o

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na "?ty

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ay piece beginning

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ama:} 'a Dixn xin ia^n nan N-aty

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min

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DIN

(3)

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'/13

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1/13

p

p

rnnNn '-w

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'"?

/i3

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the top of the same page (in an un-

formed

late

hand)

:

pn

~)3D.

On

the upper margin of fol. la (in a late hand) 'p"?X p 13D. The recto and verso of

Beginning ma 'wi xsv rnon DV ^33 :

^

-b

n:^ nrrn

'n

end. (b)

:

(1)

the

contain

small pieces and notes, written in different

Lands

cursive

Italian

(in

xbi

writing of the fifteenth to sixteenth century, but partly mere scribblings) to be found on

e.g. fol. 12

'

npn DN

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. At

the end

see the description of Dr. M. Friedlander in his " Essays on the writings of this

1846) *i3rron 'm

:

(fol.

mm

Nvn TOH92

TT

*13npni on ? iurn

nnawn DN

nitty*?

MS.

Abraham ibn Ezra," pp. 197201. The two anti-Christian passages quoted by De Rossi, Annales Hebraeo-typographici

NH

"f?

1

13'Trn

147

sec. xv., pp. 59-60, are

TO: DN iron o^na non DWI nrra

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VT T>"i3 "?Ni^r

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x-ior

inn ijnn zrm3 vno'rrm

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by

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1846:

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in.

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iron DV

fol.

Vellum, about lOf

Or. 1088.

031

Colophon,

TV

194.

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1

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176, 23a.

foil.

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"700

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nr

?

nmmo

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*13T

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both erased in this

TDK

niY13

711111

MS.,

1

;

IONI

ps nimn

The Commentary 13

ta

of

Abraham

ibn

Ezra

on the Pentateuch, with notes from other commentators.

1

rrvrn ois ? THNI D'rzn rwoi

oov

13

w o

Genesis,

310 T9 nom TS^ nm minn ISD

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fol.

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'

On

Ibn C'Mpi'i Commentaries on Ibn Ezra

Dander's

Esuays,

Geiger's

"Jiidische

"?y

'son

p

WITS

DVN rnryn NI^

Zeitschrift,"

and Schiller-Szincssy's Cambridge Catalogue, pp. 55-56, where also further references will be vi.,

1

:

minn nwn

see, besides

naN '3 "?S nwa iao '3 nn N"?O nvn ? nNiim miy

na3n

D^iyji

on

P omnx

'i

pp. 126-26,

b

Tliis

work was,

codex of which

foil.

therefore, originally contained in the

53

85 are the only extant portion.

.HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

150

m

197.

ony^n

ID

Paper, about 8f in. by 6, conto a page. sisting of 217 leaves, with 26 lines Written (in a Spanish Oriental hand) for Don Judah Abravanel, son of Don Isaac

Or. 1432.

Abravanel, A.M. 5324 (A.D. 1546).

ir

"710

:

xin:0 01*7102 "fri

wmi

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nbo

mn"7t0'i

1011:1 p by mson osnn

job '3

TOD Exodus,

Numbers,

45

fol.

;

1556

fol.

;

In

122a Deuteronomy, fol. 193 Leviticus,

fol.

almost

agreement with Joseph ibn Caspi's ncns ; comp. e.g. the beginnings of TO

literal

siDDn

(fol. 46),

1?

-]b

responding

n^

onrnn

(fol.' 120,),

1936), and i:nJlKl

imt

(fol.

1966), with the cor-

(fol.

Add. 22,091,

portions in

Paper, about 9| in. by 6|, consisting of 69 leaves, with 29 lines to a An Italian Rabbinic hand of appage.

Add. 26,987.

parently the fifteenth century.

[ALM. COLL., 99.] a

JT)N,

foil.

on

Supercommentary

;

being misplaced). passages there is an

many

;w

I'll

192199

(foil.

pns in inx nvt TUB mp-

nn

i/nin

198.

Supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Pentateuch. First word (in JTt0N"D) ~\b"i

IDEJDI

JTTO

Imper-

A

Di"7t0i

^tro Kip"

1

fect at the beginning.

iy "TO

inxn -nno

Ibn

Commentary on the Pentateuch, by Asher b. Abraham Crescas (see D^nn 11N, Ezra's

p.

256, also Benjacob, nnsorr

Heading

(fol.

2a)

-raiN,

p. 31).

:

j-)Nip:i minn by

x~vy

Beginning ipn ityx onp *rrm

PKD nmon

:

56,

DHDVD

mi by

t3 ":-K

minn

'10103

8a, 74a, 756 respectively.

The Commentary contained in the present MS. is, however, much longer than that of

End: 1

3ja niKnn 01011 nina ?

Add. 22,091.

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Scribe's colophon

ryv

217):

(fol.

IDK ba ? ntn -QD2n IBDI p nK-w IPN in N^DD

IK Kiip u^s' bxn *?M/ion pviyan

OK Kion VIKSD

ni0K

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of former 11

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1559 (?).

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nta^a

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often quoted.

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Maimonides

5")

Paper, about 9| in. by 7i, consisting of 110 leaves, with 28 to 36 lines

Add. 26,981. oip

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. a page.

to

the

The author continually quotes Franco's Supercommentary on Ibn Ezra (generally

[Aui. COM,., 93.]

introduced under the initials 33 (ipjis ttrrs), and among the other authorities cited is in -TiBon vnr 13K IKD^ID (foil. 80ft, 82a), so fol. 1046 Din irottf (i.e. Maimonides mian isoa in p"?ra), ixpii BJDV (fol. 106a), and lUDD'PN ? npaVwn 13D (fol. 92a).

cursive

Italian

hand

of

fifteenth to sixteenth century.

It contains

:

anno rto 13D

Samuel Motot, the work being a Supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Pentateuch (compare the printed edition, Venice, 1553 ; I.

of

also the abridgment contained in raiD Jiv"?:na, Amsterdam, 1721). Fol. 3a.

The notes ibn

Caspi,

On

include quotations from Joseph Shemtob Shafrut's ruj'3 njss,

[=r3J nw], and Ibn

ch, U*

fol.

76a

is

rhy

tin/1

om

NVTO

:

;

'

1

On both

the above works see M. Fried-

lander, Essays on the writings of Ab. ibn Ezra, pp. 232, 233.

On

108ft

fol.

a charm

is

given by R. Samuel Romili

On

:

1300 joro

ir

fol.

p^KO omax

"bv

131

mm cronx uw

These twelve combinations of the fol.

766.

rxT ? *n TID, a Supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Pen1

If.

tateuch, by Kzra b. Solomon ben Gatigno, surnamed Astruk. Fol. 77a.

Beginning

:

nro-:.-t

v:a:

n

"a

NITJ?

ION

TTTM

ry?

-

n TO low

vwpw

Farther on the same page lost

the book should

into the hands of persons

stand)

orarsn rrrs

DJ*

ison

200.

letters

the tetragrammaton are given

in

:

nwbm yin

'

nrDt p^K'3 ^NO

:

on

linDD '3O

(^NIDtt?

3a (upper margin)

Lower down on the same page mm *?aio /WTO* "i ia ov wm? irrron

contained

for travellers

Ezra's Niia TiD'

a piece beginning

"b

151

Add. 22,093. Paper, about 8 in. by 6, consisting of 186 leaves, with mostly 28 lines to a page.

Sixteenth century.

a

Supercommentary, by R. ben Shafrut, on Ibu Ezra's Commentary on the Pentateuch. The Commentary is divided into two parts, of which the first treats of Ibn Ezra's Commentary in general, while the second deals ,

Shemtob ben Isaac

with the Haggadic elements contained therein. Introduction, fol. 3ft ; Genesis, fol. bb

rrr

;

:

fall

Exodus, Numbers,

TTrsn ntDi

who do not underirns i~\yb '/rsn

fol.

41ft

fol.

119a

Leviticus,

;

;

fol. fol.

Deuteronomy, on fol. 170a.

94n

;

139a.

Tlie second part begins

"?

Heading,

fol.

3a

:

njn"?

'nan3

End "?H

no

(fol. 107fl)

TOT

TS: ma-

The word TpTTt

nriu ino TD ja n rnvu ^nan am noi raiax

n rczhv

:-

is,

obctituted in the margin.

u

-nom

however, crossed out, and

"?

The Muriel

scribe's (?),

aia

name

ow inn

is

of the city of

accordingly Nissim

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

152

For further particulars concerning this MS. see Dr. Friedlander in his " Essays on the

of

writings

Abraham

ibn

Ezra," pp.

Beginning of Numbers lata ib

'DW 'D^aa tyia "?nn 'j' ^D "in ? HDD a^in uoiK'S) mt /inm ? TJTID ^nt* mini in J^D 1

Beginning of Deuteronomy omaxn nn^in

^

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Commentary on far is as known

noa ?

'ax:

The value

the

of

Commentary

mainly in the illustration it affords of the state of Jewish learning in Greece in the time of Ibn Ezra and a little later. It also contains (as will be seen lower down) some interesting references to unknown

For these reasons a

books, and also of each pericope, the author has written some short rhyming lines. Thus at the beginning of TO (fol. 7a)

m

n^isn T\W TO

/INI

o-a^n

Nipa /IN

Dipaa

nn

Dipan

im

rnra

nt by

"?TTJ

: '

nnorbyn

nt

Commentary

o

nwn

N-Q

ma

"?Dn

rmna

1

33i)

nn

(fol.

16)

is

:

bxi

it

nanpnn ry

not to the author but to the scribe of the

MS., open as follows orvby

D^npn

Nipa

nt

nn

It

ends

is

1

i ? jn

-jn

N^an a^ays mitt' m^n ..... isp >opa nt nn Nsan pi

:

p It

:

o^aonn nso3 v^an

oiyiTsn

D"iioa

DW

'

1

-nan ?

]i

*?

pn

b

by nnro i^tsn

1

?

nm

not likely that the author of the

Commentary would have referred in this manner to terms occurring in his own work. The Commentary is very largely grammatical, but

(fol.

]&n

btt

yit*

(fol.

These remarks, which are probably due

:

Halakha

is

also frequently taken

:

map spv /iD'i by aoia jriN-ipai rri nttrsai iwi 'itnsa -iaa IDNJ iopa

"

maisyni ny inui

an introductory piece headed

full

notice

'

DTioa

:

211

Exodus

of

Prefixed to the

con-

ion ? Nipaa rrra pi

Beginning of Leviticus inn

2a)

(fol.

nt

Beginning of Exodus

an/v

"

m

Beginning of Genesis norr

sufficiently

MS. has been

description of the sidered desirable.

full

inn

of each of the four last

At the beginning

at present),

lies

V0W9

:

"pinm

the Pentateuch (unique,

by Rabbi Meyuhas b. Eliah. That the author lived in Greece appears to follow from his occasional reference to Greek words, and as Abraham ibn Ezra (vide infra} is the latest authority quoted by him, one may conclude that he was not later than the twelfth

sources.

205a)

onann 1^2 mi/i n:n

1

At the beginning

A

(fol.

nn

201.

century.

:

1

'nai

221226.

so

167a)

(fol.

86)

:

(so

especially

nzOTity

JTO^n,

nNT /WJB), The grammatical remarks are mostly of a

fol.

in

of

218b, in

1 very elementary nature, so e.g, fol. 4$, col. two jfcna-roniy N"?N ns: np^ty ran IOD ns^i. For the infinitive Meyuhas uses the term :

nt^a bx

ITTD

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. a corruption" of "TO1D (i.e. being of the nature of a TRta j^a* ; compare the term " .TTrvTxa in Die Anfange der hebraischen Gramraatik," Bacher, Z. D. M. G., Band 49, ,

.

,

The apocopated Imperfect

p. 34).

is

styled

For expressions which are not to be

yinpo.

taken in a

Nipan

sense he uses the term absence of adequate lexical betrayed in e.g. the statement

literal

An

"720. is

knowledge DTK '33

m

psw am

by

1

yix

rrca' ? (fol. 26,

153

The manner in which the remark is introduced (D!tfa Yiyaitf) shows that Meyuhas had no written copy of Ibn Ezra before him, and the explanation mentioned is found neither in that author's printed work on the Pentateuch, nor in the JTinx HBty published by M. Friedlander in vol. iv. of " Ibn Ezra "

Literature

Essays

Society

It

Literature).

fact, likely that a report of this

the

of

(Publications

Hebrew

of

in

is,

statement

The author frequently refers to another work of his bearing the title /man

reached Meyuhas in Ibn Ezra's lifetime. On fol. 195a, col. 1, a quotation from Tobiah b. Eliezer's mza np ? is found, with

So

the

col. 2).

e.g.

on

fol.

4a, col. 2

:

1

:

heading

inuiB liana

"?i

133

*npon -pT pi

piece ("01 oras ? "b wyjty D'D'i a V?N) may, however, have been added by the scribe.

"?3om

i"?to3

/man

On

166, col. 1

fol.

nrran tsoa

-1303

:

maun pjy

inn

''SO

Besides Midrashic and Talmudical authorities, the author refers several times to Rashi, four times to an author of the

Samuel, once

b.

to

the

name

j\iy

of Isaac

21 9o,

(fol.

rpoa POI jroxpn mpa tVta'N Tnyn ''9 'trvu n; compare Kohut, obvrt ~rny, fapjr under D^BK), and once to Abraham ibn col. 1

1

Meyuhas also Targum, and to With regard to marked that the

refers

frequently the latter,

it

must be

follows:

1

(fol.

13a, col. 2, end): ^Niaz? pnr ; 2

mri

p*3 'aiN

p6

col.

1): *ai

pz6

ym

3

;

p

146a, col. 2)

(fol.

preceding note; 4

>m

mnVr

The

"a

"?Nia

(fol.

reference to

T

"-S

(fol.

'ttn ?

140a, 1

pro*

'i

'-B

njai

?

similar to the

:

193o,

col. 1)

pz^ 'wiar

'D^

1

Abraham

:

nsVw

13 pna^ 'n

"-s

re-

references sometimes agree

with the Targura (so e.g. ]TJ^E) 'JIT! y^am, fol. 22a, col. 1), but in most cases they point to an entirely different source (so 266, col. 1,

fol. 1

on DToan

onn y^am

-UP:

T^a ?

o'ap-oi

col. 1

:

D'mnn

^a

"?y

vrro *jsa 'Jin

onaiy

ai; on

fol.

306,

r^nn ls nyn

*?3

(nana mis

Ezra. references to Isaac b. Samuel are as

the

to

an authority styled y^arr.

:

The

This

1V"?O.

1

mention

Finally,

made

should be

of a

"?,jaa nriK on "BID iaa rby nnas 11): Nim. With this compare Ibn Ezra

reference to Nipan

(Gen.

131

viii.

OfD

in loco.

At the end beginning

(fol.

2576)

some

are

lines

:

nn

ibn Ezra (evi-

dently giren in a corrupt form) is found on 9a, col. 1, end, and is as follows :

1

orrna 131 ?

TT

fol.

"wo ptn

'-sw

m-n

x-\ry

p.

D-QN o^a 'nya -

13

mnxa miNi

rntai ':

nsit

man

aD

Trai

r>*"'Ji

-ianm

NPIW

"'^ vim

NVI

of the IIS. *

Written over the

line.

due

"13

onva

tamn nson

"\

"13

r~"pi

nan Thi* corruption may, however, b

Then :-

to the scribe

'B3

13

1

iD'i

ann ?

d

irr^s H-

nt "

*?y

1

rrry ?

13311

'^N

'

Also in all probability an inhabitant of Greece the Introduction to Buber's edition, 1880. o

A

small blank in the

MS.

;

'n

see

154

.

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS. Samuel begins on

orroo

wp

s

I

?

run -IDWI

nt irnbtf

uiywn

b

r6oj

nnniwi

wto

'

notwi

heading poo mstta vb

nt

trip

19a, with the follow-

fol.

ing lines for a

:

un

"n^o

w

vnrr -wn vnty

b:

*

n'n

On

the upper margin of 26 (over first page of Commentary) the following is written :

laws H'D

-130

N12V

piosn

N^N rrtn

1'Niy

DHVD i:rm

!?it

In an Italian cursive hand, in the upper

same page, lowing entry (with peculiar name) v yww NN ? p left-hand corner of the

is

the fol-

:

57a

Kings, fol. 90a. The following gaps occur through the loss of leaves after foil. 68 and 113 2 Sam. viii. 4 fol.

:

-x.

18, 1

Kings

xiv. 21

:

1800.

29, fol. 756

in the

202. 2671

xv. 33.

The following gaps are apparently caused by the defective state of the MS. from which the

;

1

Kings

The beginning

Or.

;

scribe copied 1 Sam. v. 4 vi. 14, fol. 26

(for the usual nix'ih) nixiri itnn ns
, " '3313. Then follows in beginning: ro Ty a cursive hand the following note of a former fol.

owner

:

# pnH oann

213.

rao DZO

13 'y

Add. 26,933.

Vellum, about 5f in. by 4^, consisting of 181 leaves with 20 lines to a 180 form 18 quires (marked page. Foil. 1

by catchwords at the end) of 10 leaves each, and fol. 181 is all that is extant of the last A Spanish Rabbinic hand of the quire. Illuminated

fifteenth to sixteenth century.

[Aui. COLL., no. 41.]

headings. It contains the

Commentary

on the Pentateuch

of

Nahmanides

an abridged form. The MS. breaks off with the words in

:

D'33 OVT\

212. Censors

Harley, 5504.

Paper, about 10} in. by 8, of 323 leaves, with 30 lines to a consisting page. The quires, which are of 12 leaves

two groups, the

each, arc in foil.

the

1

1

"",

second,

first

containing quires foil.

156

comprising W J', and

consisting of abbreviation Ha is written

(fol.

18U) :-

1.

Alessandro de

2.

Laurentius Franguellus,

Caii, 1559.

214.

323,

K T. The under the Hebrew letter or letters by which the qujres are numbered on the right-hand

Add. 27,172. Paper, about 8| in. by 6, consisting of 123 leaves, with 31 to 36 lines to a page. Italian cursive writing; dated A.M.

upper corner of the

(5)312 (A.D. 1552).

quires

part of the

Written in

In the latter first page. the quire- marks are absent. the African Sefardi Rabbinic

MS.

Probably of the fifteenth century. The first three leaves and fol. 323 have been supplied by a later hand. style.

The Commentary

Nahmanides on the

of

.rrmo, a Supercommentary on Nahmanides' Commentary on the Pentateuch, by Isaac b. Samuel, of Acco (see Steinschneider, Cat. Leyd., pp. 307, 308, also St., Bodl. Cat., pp.

252320; DTm

TIN, p. 513).

Beginning of introduction

Pentateuch.

3a (the general introduction Exodus, fol. 1836 ; being given on fol. 26) Genesis,

[ALM. COLL., no. 282.]

fol.

;

VINS

:

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

160

Beginning of Supercommentary (fol. 6a) minn navia^ qyam ft pann -ION

nNna ? 1

ft

ofty

D'3 ?**

rnn3,

of which

Zunz, loco citato

(p.

328), gives the

number

66.

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. containing on the verso the beginning of Maimonides' medical work entitled p">3 ~>3D

The

nvo.

Below

a more cursive Spanish

njrm ]V3'iN ns rwa nv to 33r

varra

rr33

ma

Add. 14,759.

Vellum, about 9} in. by 6J, Each page is consisting of 481 leaves. divided into 2 columns, with 33 lines to a column. The quires, nearly all of 8 leaves, are numbered with Hebrew letters at the end.

Franco-German writing; dated Kislew, A.M. 5190 (A.D. 1430).

The Commentary

Levi

of

b.

Hebrew

Pentateuch, the

Avignon,

fol.

fol.

36

;

Exodus,

2186; Numbers,

fol.

fol.

fol.

Gershon on text (mostly

1046

335a

?

Dn3n Foil.

1

rrv ? iicy nK'13 ? v^u-n

i"?D3

1

o^iy

Dipan

THT yiti '3nn

n3t3i 'rsitt"

*?3

qy tons

13

*3N

toun

1

j-i

?^ to

3a contain pen and ink drawthe following order: (1) rrrpyn mix, 16

ings in the offering of Isaac; (2) minan rrroan mis, the sacred candlestick; (3) mtan mis, Pir6n 's, the altar, the ark, ami srr

;

;

the tables of the Decalogue (4) Tn"?ttfn mis '131 0'33n or6 's, the holy table, the show,

;

bread, &c. Leviti-

On

fol.

la:

On

fol.

481a

Deutero-

3926.

nomy, Of the various dates of composition given in the MS. (sometimes at the end of weekly pericopes) only two will be cited here :

At the end of Exodus

1

vroro

1

"asy ?

X

unpointed) being given in the margin. Genesis,

:

leaf is slightly mutilated at the

219.

cus,

in

land, the scribe's colophon

top.

the

this,

163

(fol. 2\7y/n -p^jr (A.D. 1330) rrvr ? nVun n3i3 ^3 fy mom varn 3ro 13-111' 1^ 1

half of which

has been cut away. In the second, which refers to a ceremony of circumcision, the Censor's note

(fol.

is

given.

4806)

:

00 Revisto per me Antonio Fran Enrique(?) d'ordine dell .... inonast. Archiv. d'Urbino,

1687.

n'r

Four pages are and Leviticus.

blank between Exodus

left

220.

At the end of Deuteronomy (fol. 480o) rrbyvm ay?33 mwi '1313 iW37i oto3 1x331 rorro y-iy in* to ? nbnnm ana mjrian :

1

n/ivn

'

r6nm n3i3

*?3

Vv canai

mon

31-131

Paper, about 12} in. by S;, a consisting of 396 leaves, with 34 lines to the at is defective MS. The beginning page. and the end, and the last extant three leaves

Add. 27,069.

more or less mutilated. Rabbinic hand of apparently the

French

are also

ns (A.D. 1338)

tans'?

"31Wn *

On 31TNn and other points mentary, MO Steinschn., Bodl.

Comp.

Gallia Judaica,

Henri

I'fwe Bloch), p.

fetudea Juiven,"

i.,

p. 72, tqq.

connected

the

Cat., col. 1611, $qq.

Grow

19,

with

qq.

(translated ;

also

into

Kevue dea

fifteenth

century. k

The

scribe,

Nathanel ben Nehemiah Caspi, wrote a 130; aee Neub. Bodl. Cat.,

Commentary on the nt13n no. 1229,

and Zotenberg Paris Cut, nos. 677, 678 ; also Berlin Cat., no. 203 (where see further

Steinschn.,

references).

Y 2

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

164

of Levi b.

The Commentary

Gershon on

On

words 12D O mnton DTNH mvin MH "?3 iprk "?DV, in the introExodus, fol. 79a Leviticus, fol. duction) 165a; Numbers, fol. 280 ; Deuteronomy, fol.

la

"3DD

mpD

Censor's note

:

Camillo Jagel, 1611, Lugo.

;

It ends (011

3256.

mutilated

the

222.

fol.

'

rbywn

396) near the beginning of

at the

Add. 12,209.

end of naiarr nwi.

The

from the printed

text often varies

editions.

Vellum, about 6f in. by 5^, Two columns, with consisting of 87 leaves. of small writing. to a full column 37 lines The quires, mostly of 8 leaves each, are

marked by catchwords

Vellum, about 8| in. by 6, of 109 leaves, with 26 lines to a consisting Eleven quires, of 10 leaves each, page. signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages. Square and Rabbinic character.

Harley, 7622.

hand of the fourteenth

century.

at the end.

and Rabbinic character.

221.

Sefardi

:

:

(first

;

fol.

marked 2*

p

the Pentateuch. Genesis,

a fly-leaf "r nmn

to fifteenth

Kenwicott, 122.

Italian

Square

hand (the

square character being rather in the FrancoGerman style of writing). About the middle of the fifteenth century.

The Commentary of Levi ben Gershon on the book of Proverbs, the pointed and

Hebrew text being embodied. The heading (fol. 76) is as follows iwb TID^Q ruoan maro p 'i ? "h accentuated

:

1

The Commentary

Levi ben Gershon

of

on the book of Proverbs, with the pointed and accentuated Hebrew text. This MS. contains the preface, which is wanting

in the printed editions.

Beginning nt

m

DIETO

sim IND

/vnnm

p

pioy

jTjnon inrbxn

TD

^

IDS

^100 ISD

wrong.

onmn

IINO and rrfen written on the two spectively the end

nxi-a P""mji

in

nwn

sides of the

:

ptrr

IBD obtw i^Dni ION po N ? "ry ?! pin

nbri -nnurr

1

The author

end that this was on the 3rd of commentary completed lyyar, A. 5098 (A.D. 1338). states at the

nnvn

Folia 3

5 contain three

mrp

with the following headings 1.

nt

are re-

text.

At

*?

the Italian note on

(paper fly-leaf), which states that " scritto di sua mano this MS. is propria," is

The

wiop "ram

this,

26

fol.

clearly

:

n"?jnjin

I^N-I

In the face of

(Fol. 8a)

1

or " elegies,"

:

:

tots'?

ova

A former owner, has entered his

HHT

rnn

n "?n

umt*

Solomon Raphael of Fano, name on the first page :

*

UNHJQ

The

what

correct spelling is

follows.

,

as is evident

from

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. This elegy (beginning:

nip

rtsVraz?) was accordingly Judah ben R. Solomon Yedidyah, composed by

acrostic

:

at the time of the demise of his mother, the " lady rraVrotf, which took place on Saturday, the 17th of Tammuz, A. 217 (A.D. 1457).

The

writing of this elegy

very much

is

faded. 2.

.

16th of Marheshvan, A. 226 (A.D. 1465), to R. Eliezer ben R. Elijah of Aquila, at the time resident at Ascoli. This contract is

rrnrr

witnessed

by

R. Elijah of Ascoli, and Yekuthiel ben R. Moses of Solmona.

probable that Judah ben Solomon Yedidyah was the scribe of the present MS.,

nrp

3T

Beginning: fvnrt 13X3 rrnrr. (in second half)

Acrostic

n3'X.

:

44):-

rrnrr

and

seller

Menahem ben

the

3. (Fol.

the

by

signed

It is

:-

(Fol. 3t)

MS. was

accordingly sold by Judah ben R. Solomon Yedidyah, on Tuesday, the

This

[rrvi]

165

handwriting of

above-mentioned

the

elegies (and apparently also of the contract of sale) seeming to be the same as that of

the Commentary. On fol. 3a is a seal of a former owner with

the following inscription around it " Pandulphi de Ricasolio Baronibus :

nvraTtn

\jx

Cano.

Flor."

Beginning

:

TVJTI

On

fol.

6b there

ana

Vnp a

is

list

ni *o

of the accents of

the three poetical books, with the heading s ":;-a zn vrx. (nViy 13130 ii3x 3Krro :o

In the body of the seal IMS over a heraldic design. date 1654 is written underneath the :

aro

vnno 'ou

trtjn

n"?y

TW

mo*

i3iz

seal.

223.

.(pros SPD ro'

Tlie following contract of sale

on

fol.

866

written

is

:

rrnn' ':N rrno

ISD

prni-23 v

nt "

1

1O3 ?

i nzrisa

nn

ns arn

or avn

j

.....

qy

1^33

1

/rot ? /rrry ? VT3 '83

Mojvn

::

cu

ono

T3i TT3

I^N D'rniw

rr

Colophon '/13P3

?

rrno

"?'t

*TT

1

rro ?^ i^i:!

rrsi jnsmTi ? on 1

x"r 1

"ry ?

rxo XTTzr X3io"nco

r

TT'JK

'Vri rraro

::;

nrnrr

in3

1206) :-

T

vraroi

^>3

b

pin ? Dnyom 1

rr3n

1033 3XV

1

'I ?

DM

nSty fy

njnwri nxoi

1WX

H31P3X

1033 irr on3o Namesake, therefore, of the celebrated translator of

1033 irr

t In the margin, against rT3Tf the terms H31S re written.

no

(fol.

nrrax 'TV o'jiy ^x mrja D'WJI 37133 roeo Tp^za nsis V?33 IPX ix'3si-so ^T "xion nttfon /utcr iuwno vnrk D'o 1 ny3ix3

i'o33

mo

1

^>3n

marked by catchwords at the end. Written at Ancona by Abraham b. Hasdai* of PerDated Marheshwan, A.M. 515D pignan.

1

i

lan^r^ rrao ? crainnn

opi Tier

Vellum, about 8| in. by 53, consisting of 121 leaves, with 26 lines to a Twelve quires, of 10 leaves each, page.

(A.D. 1398). Levi ben Gershon's Commentary on the book of Job. Compare Harley 5797, I.

\nii3i 1

Harley, 5526.

the " b

Book

This

Creation.

of the Apple," Ac. is

clearly

an error

;

the

era

is

that of the

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

166

-Q nra

p

/rnn b:ai

rmrrn

p-n

TIDII

"a

nomy,

nay iron

'rr

"ob

TO

The substance of the colophon is given in Latin underneath the Hebrew, written by Julius Bartolomaeus, a Cistertian Abbot.

the

effect written

first

On

owner

byn

-iiw*

r

D'tcnrr

:a

iwmo

n^sjb

w

(?)n

NP

by

wbv

'i

another Italian

b^b

tyit

n

nt by

b-niy

yo

nNibnn

jrnnn

"u?ina

p

iiyoty

also Steinschn., Berlin Cat., vol.

D-'JS

Emo,

edit. S.

work known Asher of Toledo.

ntyon ttrnD, a b.

also

Buber, Wilna,

:

mnan

Compare the separate printed

editions (ed.

in^iy sin nt

bna

A foil.

it

small portion

pm rnjNi

nu?n b'-nn:

tynwnN

n

is

^o-i

nxn raa

^i

u;^

DW

missing at the end, and

123, 137 are damaged.

Last extant words (not in Buber's text) nizo npb o Xf in mobn nt aita tnn NT :

On

Jacob

no. 149.

Beginning:

It contains:

of

ii.,

Compare the nai ttmn;

Fol. 1066).

Heading nbnjn ib i^x /ntw D"ani xba

;

,

p

SIDV

11

'pn 'K "rn

two leaves are missing ning and the end after fol. 2, and a leaf is also wanting after fol. 18. An eastern Rabbinic hand. Dated A.Contr. 1962 (A.D. 165051).

minn unT3

in^ p

-np

yin ijnn xin ia nunb xb mr

1887.

Paper, about 8f in. by 6, conof 137 leaves, with 23 to 25 lines to sisting a page. The MS. is defective at the begin-

as

obtM

Midrash on Esther, agreeing with inDN /nj, published by Buber in 1897 (see

2416

"train

m

A

iiwo

rrnn

:

nbnm rrnan

:mv n55

224.

I.

and

"ft ~f7,

nnbnn "amion

nbjm

Or.

Dbu?n

m^b) miD^b

-n

anj "3bibx

rrn>

n nou onrr

osn bap

(?)abv

ITU

[obiy] -rjn

nt

:

:o

rti,

DV ovn

the last vellum fly-leaf (numbered 121)

the following entry in cursive hand of A.D. 1445

abiyn

Kat^n

ntn inn ISD cno

II.

is

wm

n^ysm bpn oniom

nnyo

o^'n

wnn

OIUN Kb DNK>

Deutero-

;

irm Nirm iynan

(MS. by mistake

vby o^prn rn^>

r&vm

:

pericopes

^

:

rrrp

On

3py^

jTnittran

MS.

is

teenth century

nsnbni \nbnp

p

vboa HT"?

the following note in an Italian cursive hand of the fifteenth or six36

fol.

65a

fol.

TP1 are also fragmentary. At the end of this work (fol. 105a)

by Jacob ben Benjamin,

of the

words

The

nwa).

2a contains a Hebrew note to the

Fol.

same

(in

Numbers,

;

846.

fol.

First extant

TV iyn jnn lyin

VID

506

ticus, fol.

msn VHTI

rmrb

b:s

nv

'-in

fol.

106a

is

a notice of the birth of

Josef

b.

Abraham

'Oded

b.

Hayyitn nnsbtf jrrrn on the 9th of p (evidently 2052 of the

b.

Moses

b.

Abraham

b.

Enii> in the year

Greek era = 1741 A.D.).

Constantinople 1514) and byao /T)N13~)3 anizan in the editions of the Bible, known as pr.,

/iibnj

Tmopo, and

same

author's

distinguish

minn

by

it

(published Zolkiew, 1806, and Hanover, 1838). Genesis,

fol.

la; Exodus,

fol.

225.

from the

tt>VT3

206; Levi-

Add. 19,946.

Vellum, about 9J in. by 5f, 39 lines to a The quires are of 8 leaves each.

consisting of 192 leaves, with

page.

BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. Defective at the beginning, also a lacuna after fol. 190. Italian Rabbinic hand of the

1G7

hak-Kohen,* quoted on xxi. 6)

1436 (on

fol.

Sam.

1

:

fifteenth century.

o mp

rrn vb

Menahem

Rekanati's

(kabbalistic)

mentary on the Pentateuch Genesis (first extant words:

Com-

n'yaK'

140a; Deuteronomy,

Compare the printed

many

fol.

There are

editions.

marginal notes in the

164a.

MS.

irn

"?xp

on rK

?

p

rrn x ?

Tn ?

1

& n^x 1

av

on ? DN brwo J

nj*

o Kmp "?

Paper, about 9J in. by 7\, consisting of 297 leaves, with 27 lines to a page. The MS. is imperfect at the beginning, and

lacuna after

extensive

The follows Y3/?

scribe's

bhn

few leaves at the beginning and the end are damaged. Written in a Yemenite square Rabbinic hand ; dated Kislew, A.Gr.

1825 (A.D. 1513).

Joshua,

b.

fol.

1

1

1

Ki.

10 n^i

viii.)

:

(fol.

297)

is

as

-urn

in

jrr

p

noa

n/i3jry

Tn>'o

10

nnyo

''

rjisxa VD /n^^i vr^ya nurf? inar

p

mjtJ

p pv p

Tnya

ruroni

p no ^D by ^

Solomon.

Vino"

1

sin

iy

la [wanting the whole of chs.

part of ch. vii., and (after fol. 5) whole of chs. xii. xiv.]. the nearly Samuel, fol. Tib (2 Sam., Juh.'-s, fol. 196 i.

iina

on ? n ? ysni mV'p H^N D'jsn on"? DN o i/iSt

colophon

n

An Arabic Commentary on Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, and 1 Ki. i. viii., by Abraham

oncrrp '

:

A

fol. 5.

urbbt*

"by

p

Or. 2387.

a rather

w

1

on ?

mai^N

226.

is

o

irrp

o^srt ar6

At the end (concluding with

there

ns D'JBH on ?

i^o'nx yao XD^B

1

-^y

D'jsn

Vin on ? vbx rbitr vb

n:x TI1

D'"?i

'rr

-'Tina

;

fol.

T^I

DD'JN'?

w

cra^n jrpru K^/rr in ch. i. 14), fol. la ; Exodus, fol. 62a ; Leviticus, fol. 1046 Numbers,

1}

1

rrrrc

:

VTOO

1

iron

la

i"?D3

vi.,

nnan ypn

TP

;

174*) ; Kings, fol. 2476. On the authorities quoted

fol.

in

these in-

teresting compilation*, which range from the age of Sa'adyah Gaon to Shomaryah b. Klia Ikriti (end of thirteenth and beginning of fourteenth century), and also include the

Samuel (contained in Or. 2388), see Steinscb. TDtan (xix. 131136; xx. 712, 3942, 6165), where

Commentary

three other

Neub.

the

(A.D. 1531).

227.

of Isaac ben

MSS. (now

at

Cat., no. 2188) of the commentary are descrii

To

In a note on the lower part of fol. 2966 is contained the name of Abraham b. Gershom, who purchased the MS. in Elul, A.Gr. 1842

the

Bodleian

same author's

names there mentioned add Samuel

Paper, about 8} in. by 6$, consisting of 372 leaves, with 34 lines to a page

Or. 2854.

No doubt

the

Gaon 'J3H

P

"jNiaUT

explanation of the same passage as given by in the name of his father Joseph.

;

comp.

tin

David Kimlii

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

168 in

1365

foil.

An

foil.

(for

366372

(1) Boniforte del Asinay,

see below).

A.M. (5)338

Italian cursive hand, dated

Hieron Carolus, 1582. 366 372, smaller (octavo) leaves, contain quotations from nzbv pttrr, with (2)

(A.D. 1578).

Foil.

a philosophical and mystical on the Song of Songs by

.ptiTf,

Commentary Johanan

who

Alemanno,

refers

also

to

myn ^y, his Commentary on the Pentateuch (on this work and on the same author's Neub., Bodl. Cat., no. 1535, 2, and on the whole subject consult also Steinsch., Berlin Cat., vol. ii., no. 143 ;

part

DIP,

century.

228.

see

n^Dtyo Jiaxba

a^mn

This references to the pages of the MS. was probably written in the seventeenth

under nabtf

ii.,

pttfn).

The introduction bears the separate title and has been printed nobtt? ? mbyyn "VK>, under the name of plMirr "W (Livorno, The printed 1790; Halberstadt, I860?).

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present

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fol.

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words (comment on ii. 29) 0711^3 DJ^D "hx innn na ? :

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In the introduction the author refers to his patrons, Lorenzo di Medici (fol. 16) and

rwv nanp,

Giovanni

Pico

6,

completed A.D. 1466.

75a.

rr'rruNTDN'r?

by

Commentary on Jeremiah [apparently unique] by Josef b. Abraham ibn Bayyun,

text should, however, be

MS.

in.

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1

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about 8f

Paper,

consisting of 231 leaves, with 24 lines to a page ; imperfect at the beginning. African

i

noN' nn;n nia 1

?

n^T xb

1

nt 'jsai ajrenn ?

End:

di

It was at the request of (fol. 26). the latter that he undertook the composition of the work in its present form in 1489.

Mirandola

my

>!

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3a he says

fol.

:

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by npin

lam

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instead of DTI stands DDJ in Neub.,) Dll TTTT vja '3Kn ND^SD (Zoc.

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names So the MS.

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BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES.

169

229. Dnsipn

Paper, about 11} in. by 8|, of 209 leaves, with 33 lines to a consisting An Oriental Rabbinic hand of propage.

Add. 26,902.

p pan

bably the beginning of the sixteenth century.

The

first leaf is

pmr

na'K

opt

onntm

n"?o3^i 1

?

damaged. [ALM. COLL., no. 11.]

The Commentary of Joseph b. Abraham ibn Hay yun on the Psalms. See the printed edition (together with the text and KimhiV

JIN

7n"?oo

Beginning of Commentary *?a

76):

(fol.

njrp naa

"?t

.

Commentary), Salonica, 1522. Heading ob pv ~i often oann vpn tr^nn 120

mvt

/Vjnjxn rvwnyyn

End

At the end

/vr6n wmina K^K' riKty is ps ? -f? noT nt

n/iwi

srrrs

1

rm omaN ^a

"1/ijn

:

Then the author's colophon znna *r" ns soi"?pa

anai vorna oity

:

'p"?n/in

ani'sn nt

i"?^ Tty

nw

S

D D'

'n

1

fol.

la

'TV

the side of the above

rn

ono

or

:

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ipvo

A

small piece, headed Fol. 147a. II.

:

-HP"?

Beginning

:

:

nrb onpsj ? nap 1

nix

qyo no

130

230. Add. 26,960.

Paper, about 5| in. by 4|, consisting of 218 leaves, with 18 lines to a An Italian Rabbinic hand (autopage.

graph

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A

III.

homily, headed: vittm

Beginning

COLL., no. 71.]

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'iai

px

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TnV

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:

10:3310 ''/IPS IIBM onai " nona n^rn piosa itoi: 'PI

A

number of works by Isaac hak-Kohen Hayyitn b. Abraham b. Isaac b. Joseph, in

the following order I.

mat

50.

Fol.

of the sixteenth century.

[Am. b.

mam

ntn iscn a via ?

the top of

On

npTtfn

[A.D. 1517]

_s

On

nn

ia TTSJ aizn ona nnrn CTDZP

on V-TOT

nanxn -niyo nson

466):-

(fol.

:

y:

D'Knp unp

A

A

summary

of the discourse

verse form at the end

:

Commentary on the Song

of Songs.

IV.

(foil.

61o

A Commentary on /TPN

pnr u oman p trpi

r

Heading y'b

v:

ijTix

o~n -parr

ia

:

:

pan y:

prrr

pan

nan IDV

p

U"n

p

1

inan pro" ? So the MS.

given in

62a).

"pns. Fol.

Fol. 6a.

Beginning of introduction

is

max

d-t-u.

HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

170

Beginning of introduction cbyi

in

A

short piece, headed Fol.

qy^a.

oSy

rfan

"73

VI.

:

Beginning

On

646 (in the course of the same

fol.

introduction)

warn

nor

TV

/im pis

1

'/imy ?

rom

On

fol.

D'amN ? 11126 vrriy H3i vbnfb Dans'? rnsnn D/IIN vu'/oi DtcrrvB rra/o viyno 1

Each Perek

preceded by a composition

is

in verse giving a summary of the contents. The TNO "VT p13 is included. (fol. 1886) :mi/i rairn uvrot ? rap 1

pipib

o

"?yi

fol.

mm

ruin

D'D'3 11^3

On

nsnn ?

foil. 36,

Censor

1DH/1

2a, in large letters 1

D'ttfiTrrn

Dy"?3 by

:

poy K3p i N ? Ntom 1

vi

46, are

some

DIB"?

notes, in cursive

'3NTp !?K1D0.

by

2176):Dominico Fresolo, mi no (or Gerosolomitano

'nwta

ysn

/iixns iny TIN^I

1

DH33 ?

On

w

2166 are some verses beginning:

Italian, written

rm m

'

ipix lyzb 13/1136

rain

IDI"?I

n ny^ni xin

:

/raitarn jraitpnn

End raimi

:

(fol.

?),

1598.

Author's colophon

:

NU

na/i ttar6

/na

'pis

[A.D. 1518]

231.

Then follow some more verses beginning: /INT

V.

A

Commentary on the book

of

Lamen-

Fol. 189a.

tations.

Beginning of introduction -713/1'

yi by\

mo

by

iiiao

"

00

:

DVI/ID

TTJ DJD

End

(fol.

"?Nittr

"?yi

w

naiton

TQ^K ^y

o

on the books of

Yedidyah

n^m n^api

nj^p^ "na Nin nt

2136)

onsoo

yi3 1113 (or, as in the printed text [Mantua Bible, 1742 /iron), a con44]: tinuous series of critical and Masoretic notes

11

is'Di

'131

[ALM. COLL., no. 312.]

1

N^OJH oyn ^3 ^y

page varies considerably. Autograph (Italian cursive writing), completed A.D.

^n"

^31 xin 1^1

Beginning of Commentary (fol. 1926) O'WIT pip ? ^nnn -ny in^oi n3^

^

to a

1626.

:

ion

IUTK

Add. 27,198. Paper, about llf in. by 8, conThe number of lines sisting of 642 leaves.

the Old

Solomon

Testament, by

Rafael

[b.

Abraham]

Norzi. rr/iuni

/iioyi/in

The notes elaborate

are preceded by the prefaces, title-page, and ll3Trrr /in'/irr, as

published by Jellinek (rr Knpn, Wien, 1876). Foil. 2a 76 contain besides what appears to

:

i^n^KJty Dips

be the rough draft of the greater nmpn. '131

On

the top of

fol.

37