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Detailed record for Egerton 872

Author Solomon ben Isaac ('Rashi')
Title Commentary on the Pentateuch with the Haftarot (ff. 1-240) on the Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot; ff. 240v-270), and on the Haftarot for festivals (ff. 270-287v)
Origin Germany
Date 1341
Language Hebrew
Script Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated
Scribe Baruch ben (?) Samuel (the word barukh is marked on ff. 30, 185v, 186v, 226v, 239)
Decoration 1 textual illustration, in brown ink (f. 101), 2 diagrams of the Holy Land (ff. 198-199), 2 decorated initial words, in brown ink (ff. 1, 126), 1 marginal illustration (f. 1).
Dimensions in mm 290 x 225 (205 x 150)
Official foliation ff. 287 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end)
Collation 37 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1-7), ii8 (ff. 8-15), iii8 (ff. 16-23), iv8 (ff. 24-31), v8 (ff. 32-39), vi8 (ff. 40-47), vii8 (ff. 48-55), viii8 (ff. 56-63), ix8 (ff. 64-71), x8 (ff. 72-79), xi8 (ff. 80-87), xii8 (ff. 88-95), xiii8 (ff. 96-103), xiv8 (ff. 104-111), xv8 (ff. 112-119), xvi6 (ff. 120-125), xvii8 (ff. 126-133), xviii8 (ff. 134-141), xix8 (ff. 142-149), xx8 (ff. 150-157), xxi8 (ff. 158-165), xxii8 (ff. 166-173), xxiii8 (ff. 174-181), xxiv8 (ff. 182-189), xxv8 (ff. 190-197), xxvi8 (ff. 198-205), xxvii8 (ff. 206-213), xxviii8 (ff. 214-221), xxix8 (ff. 222-229), xxx8 (ff. 230-238), xxxi6 (ff. 239-245), xxxii8 (ff. 246-253), xxxiii8 (ff. 254-261), xxxiv8 (ff. 262-269), xxxv8 (ff. 270-277), xxxvi8 (ff. 278-285), xxxvii2 (ff. 286-287). Catchwords.
Form Parchment codex
Binding Post-1600. Leather boards with embossed golden coat of arm (of Francis Henry Egerton?).
Provenance [Baruch ben] Samuel, the scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, he wrote the codex for his uncle, Rabbi [..] called [..], in 18 Svat, 101 [1341]; most of the names have been erased from the colophon (f. 287).
Various illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 287v).
Purchased by the British Museum from Hen. Bohn, 26 September 1840: inscribed (f. [288v]); probably Henry George Bohn (b. 1796, d. 1884), translator and publisher. Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
Notes Numerous marginal notes. Pricking and ruling are visible. Parallel Hebrew foliation (ff. 1-70).
Select bibliography Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXL (London: British Musem,1843), p. 21.

George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), I, no. 176.


Images
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Menorah

f. 101v
Menorah		 Menorah

f. 101v
Menorah		 Decorated initial word

f. 126
Decorated initial word
 
Holy Land

f. 198v
Holy Land		 Holy Land

f. 199
Holy Land
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