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Vat.ebr.102

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.102
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
14th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1400
Support:
Paper (parchment ff. 269-270. 272-273)
Height:
222
Width:
146
Extent:
277 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Capsali (family)Biblical commentary

Description

Date:
14th century, , 15th century, 1300, 14-15th century
Beginning date:
1301, 1401
Ending date:
1400, 1500
Collation:
Reconstructed quires. F. 130b is a leaf from a 15th century paper Byzantine manuscript bound with this codex. Ff. 269-270 are a fragment of 2 parchment leaves from another manuscript written in a Sephardic script around 1300. No. 5 (ff. 271-274) is composed of 2 parchment leaves, the inner bifolia of a quire, from a 14-15th century manuscript written in Byzantine semi-cursive script.
Foliation:
1-130, 130a, 130b-275
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script. Sephardic script (ff. 269-270)
Writing - Note:
The letters forming the name Moses משה are singled out on f. 274v. Moses was probably the name of the scribe who copied ff. 271-274.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Byzantium>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 136.
History:
On f. 268v an owner wrote a note about the provenance of the manuscript but his name was erased לעולם יחתום אדם שמ[ו] על ספרו שמא יבא אחר ויאמר שלי הוא. It is followed by another entry, mostly obliterated, in which the name Capsali is still legible קפשלי ... קפשלי יצ"ו.

Administrative information

Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), pp. 68-69.

Parts of this manuscript

1r-130v. 131r-223r

[פירוש על פירוש התורה של רש"י]. and Supercommentary on Solomon b. Isaac's (Rashi) commentary on the Pentateuch.

Date:
Locus:
1r-130v. 131r-223r
Supplied title:
[פירוש על פירוש התורה של רש"י]. and Supercommentary on Solomon b. Isaac's (Rashi) commentary on the Pentateuch.
General note:
Beginning of the commentary on Genesis i:1 missing., The anonymous author or compiler does not mention any other authorities except for Abraham ibn Ezra ר' אברהם ב"ע (f. 27v et al.)., Commentaries on some passages are found verbatim in a compilation of supercommentaries on Rashi in MS Verona, Biblioteca Comunale ebr. 4., At the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r) a later hand added a partly obliterated note פירושים על רש"י מהרב ר' [...] הזקן., Another hand added on f. 274v פירושים יפים על רש"י מהרב ר'., and On ff. 48r, 67v and 102r glosses in another hand signed דא"ק.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 68.

130br-v

[ספר הנצחון, קטע]. and Introduction to Sefer ha-Niẓẓaḥon

Date:
15th century
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1500
Locus:
130br-v
Supplied title:
[ספר הנצחון, קטע]. and Introduction to Sefer ha-Niẓẓaḥon
General note:
Fragment from another manuscript including part of the introduction to Yom Tov Lippman Muelhausen's polemical treatise "Sefer ha-Niẓẓaḥon".
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 68.

130ar-v. 223v-268v

[חידושים על התורה]. and Novellae on the Pentateuch

Locus:
130ar-v. 223v-268v
Supplied title:
[חידושים על התורה]. and Novellae on the Pentateuch
General note:
Novellae on the Pentateuch, mostly on Rashi's commentary, mainly by the Tosafists. In several places the Tosafists are mentioned specifically מקשי' התוספות., Includes novellae on pericopes "Bereshit" to "Mishpatim" (ff. 223v-257v) followed by additional novellae on Shemot to "Va-Yakhel" (ff. 257v-260r), still more on Mishpatim (ff. 260r-267r) and a few short commentaries on passages from pericopes "Va-Yikra", "Shemini" and "Koraḥ"., At the end the scribe noted that he could find no more text לא מצאתי יותר., and F. 130a bound out of place with no. 1, is the continuation of f. 262.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 68.

269r-270v

[פירוש על הביאור האמצעי על ספר השמע הטבעי של אריסטו, קטע] and Fragments from an anonymous supercommentary on the Intermediate Commentary on Aristotle's Physics by Averroes.

Date:
1300
Locus:
269r-270v
Supplied title:
[פירוש על הביאור האמצעי על ספר השמע הטבעי של אריסטו, קטע] and Fragments from an anonymous supercommentary on the Intermediate Commentary on Aristotle's Physics by Averroes.
General note:
Only on Part vi, chapters 2-4 and 7-9.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 68.

271r-274v

Kaspi, Yosef ben Aba Mari, [פירוש על פירוש התורה של ראב"ע] and Fragment from the supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch

Date:
14-15th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1500
Locus:
271r-274v
Author:
Kaspi, Yosef ben Aba Mari, c.1280-c.1340. Opere spurie e dubbie [internal]
Other author:
Ibn ʿEzra, Avraham ben Meʾir, 1089-1164 [external]
Supplied title:
[פירוש על פירוש התורה של ראב"ע] and Fragment from the supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch
General note:
Attributed to Joseph ibn Kaspi., From the middle of pericope "Bereshit" to the middle of "Va-Yishlaḥ" (= edn. Last, pp. 148-154)., and On the edition and the attribution of this commentary to ibn Kaspi cf. MS Vat. ebr. 103/1.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), pp. 68-69.