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Detailed record for Additional 21160
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| Title |
Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos (ff. 1-273), Haftarot (ff. 274-297v), and Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot; ff. 298-318), Job ch. 1-31:2 (ff. 318v-329v), with masorah magna and parva (aka 'Yonah Pentateuch') |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
2nd half of 13th century |
| Language |
Hebrew, Aramaic |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square script, punctuated |
| Scribe |
Baruch (the word barukh is marked on f. 1) |
| Decoration |
1 inhabited initial word in ink (f. 63v). Numerous micrographical illustrations. |
| Dimensions in mm |
380 x 285 (235 x 175) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 329 (+ 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf with unidentified watermark [crowned eagle with spread wings, beneath: H S(?) B] and 2 modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
35 quires: i6 (ff. 1-6), ii12 (ff. 7-18), iii12 (ff. 19-30), iv12 (ff. 31-42), v12 (ff. 43-54), vi12 (ff. 55-66), vii12 (ff. 67-78), viii12 (ff. 79-90), ix12 (ff. 91-102), x12 (ff. 103-114), xi12 (115-126), xii10 (ff. 127-136), xiii12 (ff. 137-148), xiv12 (ff. 149-160), xv8 (ff. 161-168), xvi12 (ff. 169-180), xvii12 (ff. 181-192), xviii12 (ff. 193-204), xix12 (ff. 205-216), xx12 (ff. 217-228), xxi12 (ff. 229-240), xxii12+1 (ff. 241-253), xxiii10 (ff. 254-263), xxiv4 (ff. 264-267), xxv4 (268-271), xxvi2 (ff. 272-273), xxvii10 (ff. 274-283), xxviii6 (ff. 284-289), xxix8 (ff. 290-297), xxx3 (ff. 298-300), xxxi10 (ff. 301-310), xxxii8 (ff. 311-318), xxxiii3 (ff. 319-321), xxxiv5 (ff. 322-326), xxxv3 (ff. 327-329). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
M. Edwin Tross of Paris: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 October 1855: inscribed (f. [330v]). |
| Notes |
Imperfect at the beginning and the end, as well as there are lacunae after ff. 273, 300, 322. Ruling is sometimes visible. |
| Select bibliography |
Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 48).
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. 75.
Stanley Ferber, 'Micrography: a Jewish Art Form', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 12-24 (pp. 18-20).
Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), p. 22.
Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
Bezalel Narkiss, Kitve-yad Ivriyim metsuyarim (Jerusalem: Keter, 1984), p. 49.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987), pp. 135 and 142.
Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles' New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996) http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm (accessed on 17 December 2010).
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 105 [exhibition catalogue].
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 132. |
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f. 63v
Inhabited initial word |
f. 181v
Micrography |
f. 181v
Rider |
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f. 182
Micrography |
f. 184
Micrography |
f. 187v
Micrography |
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f. 187v
Micrography |
f. 188
Micrography |
f. 192v
Knight |
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f. 194
Micrography |
f. 201v
Knight |
f. 201v
Knight |
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f. 285
Ezekiel's vision |
f. 285
Ezekiel's vision |
f. 292
Jonah and the fish |
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f. 292
Jonah and the fish |
f. 292v
Jonah under the gourd |
f. 292v
Jonah under the gourd |
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f. 300v
Micrography |
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