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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.413

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.413
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
Late 14th century
Beginning date:
1376
Ending date:
1400
Support:
Paper and a few outer or inner parchment bifolia
Height:
215
Width:
144
Extent:
128 ff.

Description

Date:
late 14th century
Beginning date:
1376
Ending date:
1400
Collation:
Varied quiring
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script
Writing - Note:
The scribe, Shabbetai b. Samuel, wrote a note at the end of the manuscript (f. 128v) confirming its sale to Nehemiah b. Menahem Calomiti for 3 dinars.
Palimpsest:
The parchment sheets (ff. 6/11, 108/119, 113/114) and ff. 120 and 124 are palimpsests taken from a Latin manuscript of musical notations and reused to copy this text (no Hebrew was written on ff. 120 and 124).
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
Byzantium
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 85.

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. 356.

Parts of this manuscript

3r–115r

[!]שרשים לר' מנחם בן סרוק המדקדק

Locus:
3r–115r
Title:
[!]שרשים לר' מנחם בן סרוק המדקדק
Supplied title:
Shorashim
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. 356.

121v–122r. 127r

Two letters sent to Rethymnon

Locus:
121v–122r. 127r
Supplied title:
Two letters sent to Rethymnon
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. 356.

1r

Two poems

Locus:
1r
Supplied title:
Two poems
Incipit:
לאורזיליא דהו שפיר בריוא and .קחה חכמה לתפארת
Language:
Aramaic. and 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. 356.