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Detailed record for Additional 15252
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| Title |
Duke of Sussex Bible with masorah magna and parva |
| Origin |
Spain, N. E. (Catalonia) |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew, Aramaic |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, punctuated |
| Decoration |
Masorah in micrographical design in the lower margins. Decorated parashah signs in mauve, red and gold. Numerous embellished bands with penwork decoration in red and blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
305 x 220 (200/205 x 150/155) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 477 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
60 quires: i-ix8 (ff. 1-72), x8 (ff. 73-75, 75*, 76-79), xi-xiv8 (ff. 80-111), xv4 (ff. 112-115), xvi-xlix8 (ff. 116-467), lx ten (ff. 468-477). Catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Samuel ben Moses de Medina (b. 1505, d. 1589), Talmudist from Salonica, owner: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (f. 1).
Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1618 (f. 477v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), pp. 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
Birth entries in Spanish of four sons of an unknown family, 1699, 1700, 1702, 1704 (f. 1).
Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his sale 31 July 1844, lot 103: inscribed (f. [478v]), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller for £5. |
| Notes |
Ruling is sometimes visible. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Gilt edges. |
| Select bibliography |
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. 60.
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 21; II, figs 328-31.
Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), p. 71.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), p. 170.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 130. |
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ff. 94v-95
Micrography |
f. 116v
Micrography |
f. 179v
Text page |
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f. 238
Text page |
f. 302
Decorated panel |
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