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Detailed record for Additional 17745
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| Title |
Zohar on Genesis |
| Origin |
Italy |
| Date |
15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated |
| Scribe |
Solomon (?) |
| Decoration |
18 initial-word panels in colours decorated with penwork and accompanied with partial pen-flourished border (ff. 1, 1v, 13v, 22, 32, 35, 47, 49, 60v, 65v, 79, 87v, 97, 112v, 126, 140v, 153v, 160). |
| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 195 (185 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 183 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
Quires: i-xxii8 (ff. 1-176), xxiii8-1 (ff. 176-183). Catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Black leather. |
| Provenance |
Scribal note without name or date (f. 182v).
Solomon, the scribe?: the name Shlomo is marked (f. 181).
Elijah Anaw: inscribed with his name, undated (f. 1).
Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 182v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.
Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan censor (active at the end of the 16th century-beginning of 17th century, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1601 (f. 182v), see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 18-19, 93.
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, censor: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (f. 182v), see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 85-87.
Acquired by the British Museum in 1848. |
| Notes |
Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. |
| 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), III, no. 762. |
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f. 1
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 65v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 87v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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