|
|
|
|
|
|
Detailed record for Oriental 2627
|
|
|
|
| Title |
Bible (the 'Lisbon Bible') with masorah magna and parva: the Prophets |
| Origin |
Portugal, Central (Lisbon) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 15th century, 1482 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Samuel ben Samuel ibn Musa |
| Decoration |
20 full borders sometimes accompanied with decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 134, 134v, 135, 135v, 136v, 168, 210, 246, 250v, 252, 256, 256v, 258, 260v, 261v, 263, 264v, 265v, 271v). 4 decorated initial-word panels (ff. 1v, 21, 40, 85v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 245 (185 x 155) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 273 (+ 4 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 2 older and 4 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
34 quires: i-xvi8 (ff. 1-128), xvii8-1 (ff. 129-135), xviii-xxv8 (ff. 136-199), xxvi10 (ff. 200-209), xxvii-xxxiv8 (ff. 210-273). 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 (f. 185v). (see volume III, Or. 2628, f. 185v).
Benjamin Cohen of Bukhara: purchased by the British Museum from him on 17 November 1882 (f. [275v]). |
| Notes |
In three volumes: the other volumes are Or. 2626, 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. 60-61.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 156 [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]. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
f. 1v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 40
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 136v
Initial-word panel and full border |
| |
f. 168
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 168
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 250v
Initial-word panel and full border |
| |
f. 252
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 252
Initial-word panel and floral border |
f. 256v
Initial-word panel and full border |
| |
f. 258
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 261v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 262
Text page |
| |
|
|
|
|
