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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.26

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.26
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
13th century
Beginning date:
1201
Ending date:
1300
Support:
Parchment
Height:
290
Width:
226
Extent:
<iii> + 202 ff.

Description

Date:
13th century
Beginning date:
1201
Ending date:
1300
Collation:
Ternions
Writing:
Sephardic square script
General note:
The quiring of the manuscript (ternions) indicates that it was probably produced in Toledo where several other manuscripts holding ternions were produced between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century.
Language:
Hebrew. and Latin.
Alphabet:
Hebrew. and Latin.
Origin:
<Toledo?>
Provenance:
From the collection of the Florentine humanist Giannozzo Manetti. Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 157
History:
On f. <i>r a note in Italian stating that this manuscript was given as a pledge for a loan of six lire obtained by the Santa Maria degli Angeli monastery from a [Jewish] bank named Vacca (i.e. on the Via della Vacca in Florence): "Questo libro è de' frati degli Agnoli deon dare lire sei che tanto si rischosse dal presto della Vacca dove era pegnio". On f. <ii>r a note in Latin recording the purchase of the manuscript by Leonardo de Frescobaldi in Valenza for the clergyman Ambrosius (=Ambrogio Traversari, 1356-1439): "Liber iste emptus fuit in urbe Valentie Leonardo de Frescobaldis qui pro fratre Ambrosio viro optimo atque religioso preclarissimo emisse inquit". On f. 202v a note in Hebrew dated June 5198=1438, concerning a pledge of this MS and two others by Michael, a friar in the Angeli monastery, for a loan of fifty lire 'פראטי מיקילי דלאנייולי נ' ליט' יציאת יונייו קצ"ח כת בזכרונות ב' ספרי' כתובים וספר נצרי בנייר על איוב.

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. 16-17.

Parts of this manuscript

1v-197r

[כתובים] and Hagiographa

Locus:
1v-197r
Supplied title:
[כתובים] and Hagiographa
Uniform title:
Biblia. V.T. Gruppi, scelte. Ebraico
General note:
Includes Ruth (ff. 1v-3v), Psalms (ff. 4r-53v), Job (ff. 53v-73v), Proverbs (ff. 73v-89v), Daniel (ff. 89v-102v), Ezra-Nehemiah (ff. 102v-124r), Canticles (ff. 124r-127r), Lamentations (ff. 127r-133r), Ecclesiastes (ff. 133r-136v), Esther (ff. 136v-143r) and Chronicles (ff. 143r-197r). and With vowel points and accents
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. 16-17.

197r-200r

מגלת חשמונאי

Locus:
197r-200r
Title:
מגלת חשמונאי
Supplied title:
Scroll of Antiochus
Language:
Aramaic.
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. 17.

201v

גורל של אשתי

Locus:
201v
Title:
גורל של אשתי
Supplied title:
Lots for a woman based on passages from the Pentateuch
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. 17.