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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.64

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.64
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
Beginning of the 16th century, before 1514
Support:
Paper
Height:
227
Width:
163
Extent:
279 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Capsali MosesBiblical commentary

Description

Date:
beginning of the 16th century, before 1514
Collation:
Apparently mostly quaternions
Layout:
From f. 263 in two columns
Writing:
Sephardic-Italian semi-cursive script, similar to the so-called “Rashi” script
Writing - Note:
The same scribe copied MS Vat. ebr. 276 in 1507 and his name, Moses, is included in the colophon.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Byzantium?>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 107.

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. 45.

Parts of this manuscript

1r–279v

Mosheh ben Naḥman, Commentary on the Pentateuch and [פירוש התורה לרמב"ן]

Locus:
1r–279v
Author:
Mosheh ben Naḥman, c. 1195-c. 1270 [person]
Supplied title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch and [פירוש התורה לרמב"ן]
General note:
Only Genesis-Exodus. On f. 279v a note replete with spelling and grammatical errors, by the owner Moses Capsali, on debts from the years 1514 and 1515. Another note, apparently in another hand, dated 15 October 1526, records a debt of two florins owed by Jacob Shushi.
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. 45.