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Detailed record for Oriental 2626
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| Title |
Bible (the 'Lisbon Bible') with masorah magna and parva: the Pentateuch |
| Origin |
Portugal, Central (Lisbon) |
| Date |
1483 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, punctuated |
| Scribe |
Samuel ben Samuel ibn Musa |
| Decoration |
53 full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1v-22, ff. 180-184v). Numerous decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold. Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours and gold. Masorah magna in micrographical design in the margins. Full-page micrographic design (f. 179v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 140 (145 x 100) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 184 (+ 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 modern and 2 older unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
24 quires: i-ii8 (ff. 1-8, 9-16), iii6(ff. 17-22), iv-x8 (ff. 23-78), xi6(ff. 79-84), xii-xix8 (ff. 85-148), xx6 (ff. 149-154), xxi-xxiii8 (ff. 155-178), xxiv6 (ff. 179-184). Catchwords. On guards. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Samuel ben Samuel ibn Musa, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Lisbon, 5243 [1483] (see volume III, Or. 2628, f. 185v).
Joseph ben Judah called Elhakhim, the patron: inscribed with his name in the colophon (see volume III, Or. 2628, f. 185v).
Benjamin Cohen of Bukhara: purchased by the British Museum from him on 17 November 1882 (f. [186v]). |
| Notes |
In three volumes: the other volumes are Or. 2627, and 2628. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. |
| Select bibliography |
Jacob Leveen, The Hebrew Bible in Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
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. 62.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scentifique, 1970), pp. 24-29.
Therese Metzger, Les manuscrits he´breux copie´s et de´core´s a` Lisbonne dans les dernie`res de´cennies du XVe sie`cle (Paris: Fundac¸a~o Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro cultural portugue^s, 1977), pp. 33-48.
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. 42; II, figs 404-19.
Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626, introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988) [facsimile edition].
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish book art between Islam and Christianity: the decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), p. 206.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 56-59.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 35 [exhibition catalogue].
Online Gallery: Turn the Pages (The British Library):
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/lisbon/accessible/introduction.html [accessed on 2 June 2011]. |
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f. 1v
Initial-word panels and full border |
f. 1v
Fleur-de-lis |
f. 2
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 2v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 3
Full border |
f. 3v
Full border |
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f. 4
Full border |
f. 4v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 5
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 5
Detail |
f. 5v
Initial-word panels and full border |
f. 6
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 6v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 7
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 7v
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 7v
Dragon |
f. 7v
Birds |
f. 8
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 8
Parrot |
f. 8v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 9v
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 10
Full border |
f. 13v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 13v
Full border |
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f. 13v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 16
Initial-word panels and full border |
f. 23v
Genesis |
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f. 23v
Genesis |
f. 40
Decorated parashah sign |
f. 40
Decorated parashah sign |
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f. 61v
Exodus |
f. 61v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 68
Decorated parashah sign |
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f. 79v
Decorated parashah sign |
f. 99v
Decorated parashah sign |
f. 117
Numbers |
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f. 117
Numbers |
f. 179v
Micrography |
f. 180
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 180v
Full border |
f. 181
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 181v
Initial-word panel and full border |
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f. 182
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 182v
Full border |
f. 183
Full border |
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f. 183
Detail of a full border |
f. 183v
Full border |
f. 184
Full border |
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f. 184v
Initial-word panel and full border |
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