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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.44.pt.1

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.44.pt.1
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
14th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1400
Support:
Oriental paper.
Height:
257
Width:
170
Extent:
192 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Capsali ElijaMidrash

Description

Date:
14th century
Beginning date:
1301
Ending date:
1400
Collation:
Reconstructed quires.
Writing:
Byzantine, Oriental and Sephardic semi-cursive scripts.
Writing - Note:
Most of the manuscript was copied by one Byzantine hand on Oriental paper of two-grouped chain lines.
General note:
On f. 3r a Byzantine hand compiled a table of the contents of this manuscript (scil. Vat.ebr.44.pt.1 and Vat.ebr.44.pt.2 bound together), partly cropped by a binder (v. ad loc. Edizione). and On f. 3r another hand added the name Shabbetai in the margin, below the table of contents.
Other name:
Ḳapsali, Eliyahu ben Elḳanah, m. c. 1555 [owner]
Fugger, Ulrich, 1526-1584 [owner]
Language:
Hebrew. and Latin.
Alphabet:
Hebrew. and Latin.
Origin:
<Byzantium>.
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 61. On f. 3r a note by Fugger recording the purchase of the manuscript on 8 November, 1541 from the "contestabile" [head of the Jewish community in Candia, Elijah Capsali]. The note is in Latin and the word "contestabile" is written in Fugger ̓s cipher.

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. 29-31.

Parts of this manuscript

1ar-192v

[מדרש תנחומא] and Midrash Tanḥuma

Locus:
1ar-192v
Supplied title:
[מדרש תנחומא] and Midrash Tanḥuma
Uniform title:
Midrash Tanḥuma
General note:
[מדרש תנחומא] "Midrash Tanḥuma". The text in this manuscript is incomplete and has many lacunae as well as later additions. and On ff. 1a-2 and 94-97 completions of some of the lacunae were added by different Italian and Oriental hands.
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. 29.