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Vat.ebr.33

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.33
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
14th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1400
Support:
Parchment
Height:
307
Width:
230
Extent:
184 ff. (f. 1 lacking, f. 2 a loose flyleaf)
Exhibit Tags:
Biblical commentaryCapsali Isaac

Description

Date:
14th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1400
Collation:
Quaternions
Writing:
Sephardic semi-cursive script
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Spain>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 15
History:
Owners: Isaac Capsali לה' הארץ ומלואה זה הספר מקנת כספי יצחק קפשלי (f. 2r); a note testifying that the writer began to study with R. Shabbetai ח' לחדש כסליו התחלתי ללמוד עם ר' [שבתי] יצ"ו (f. 2v) and a list of debts and the names of debtors (ibid.). On f. 33v: "Aquest[o] libro es de Abram".

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), p. 22.

Parts of this manuscript

3v-185r

Rashi, [פירוש התורה לרש"י] and Commentary on the Pentateuch

Locus:
3v-185r
Author:
Rashi, 1040-1105 [internal]
Other author:
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, m. 1340 [internal]
Ibn-Šuʿaib, Yehoshuʻa, sec. XIV [internal]
Yaʿaḳov ben Asher, 1269-1340 [internal]
Ḥizḳiyah ben Manoaḥ, sec. XIII [internal]
Menaḥem, di אושפירא [internal]
Yitsḥaḳ ben Shemuʾel, di Spagna, sec. XI-XII [internal]
Supplied title:
[פירוש התורה לרש"י] and Commentary on the Pentateuch
Uniform title:
Perush Rashi ʿal ha-Torah
Summary:
Commentary on the Pentateuch with glosses
General note:
Includes a few maps referring to Genesis xxviii:17 (f. 29r) and Numbers xxxii (f. 155r)., Other hands added glosses in the margins including extracts from other commentaries, among them כד הקמח by Baḥya b. Asher (f. 21r), בן שועיף Joshua ibn Shuaib (f. 29v), לפי רבינו יעקב נעתק Jacob b. Asher (f. 45v), נעתק מחזקוני Hezekiah b. Manoah (ibid.), מפירוש מנחם מאושפירא Menahem of אושפירא (f. 46r) and מפי מו' יצחק הספרדי Isaac the Spaniard (f. 125r)., Most of these glosses were copied in an Italian script by Judah d'Ancona., and One of the glosses is dated Adar I 5201=1441 נעתק ע"י יהודה דאנקונא אדר ראשון ר"א לפרט (f. 22v).
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. 22.