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Detailed record for Oriental 2628
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| Title |
Bible (the 'Lisbon Bible') with masorah magna and parva: the Hagiographa |
| Origin |
Portugal, Central (Lisbon) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 15th century, 1482 |
| Language |
Hebrew, Aramaic |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Samuel ben Samuel ibn Musa |
| Decoration |
7 full borders sometimes accompanied with decorated initial-word panels and inhabited by animals, in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 178, 178v, 179, 179v, 180, 180v). 9 decorated initial-word panels, in colours and gold (ff. 93, 107, 127, 138v, 141, 144, 147, 152v, 159). Embellished bands on one folio, in colours and gold (f. 50v). Micrographical design (f. 50). |
| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 240 (185 x 150) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 186 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 4 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
24 quires: i-xvi8 (ff. 1-128), xvii6 (ff. 129-134), xviii-xxii8 (ff. 135-142, 143-150, 151-158, 159-166, 167-174), xxiii-xxiv6 (ff. 175-186). 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] (f. 185v).
Joseph ben Judah called Elhakhim, the patron: inscribed with his name in the colophon (f. 185v).
Scribal note in a micrographic design with a date Kislev 5200 [1440], which should be 5243 (f. 50).
Benjamin Cohen of Bukhara: purchased by the British Museum from him on 17 November 1882 (f. [187v]). |
| Notes |
In three volumes: the other volumes are Or. 2626, and 2627. 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. 62-63.
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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Lower edge
Lower edge |
Fore edge
Fore edge |
Spine
Spine |
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Front binding
Front binding |
Inside upper cover
Inside upper cover |
f. 1v
Full border |
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f. 93
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 138v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 141
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 184v
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 185
Initial-word panel and full border |
f. 185v
Colophon in full border |
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f. 185v
Lion |
f. 185v
Coat of arms |
f. 185v
Owl |
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f. 185v
Peacock |
f. 186
Full border |
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