Binding: 19th century paper boards (pink); with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine.Contents note: Incomplete: includes the books of Hosea, Joel and parts of Amos.Contents note: The book was printed between 1485 and 1486 in Italy but a later owner has added a marginal annotations in Hebrew, in his 16th or 17th century hand (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 268 × 197 × 10 mm (size of binding); ca. 262 × 187 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script, the commentary surrounds the main text and is printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: http://data.cerl.org/mei/02124375.
Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century calf over pasteboards, with gold-tooled borders; sewn onto five supports; with imprint details (in gilt) and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Contents note: Includes the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Hezekiel.Contents note: The book was printed between 1485 and 1486 in Italy but a later owner has added incipit to the book of Isaiah, vocalisation, marginal annotations and corrections in Hebrew, in his 16th century hand (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 241 × 194 × 35 mm (size of binding); ca. 234 × 175 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script, the commentary surrounds the main text and is printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: http://data.cerl.org/mei/02124374.
Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century calf over pasteboards, with gold-tooled borders; sewn onto four supports; with imprint details (in gilt) and shelfmark on the spine.Contents note: Incomplete: includes only Prophets and Writings; some text in manuscript.Contents note: The book was printed in 1494 in Italy but later owners have added marginal annotations and personal notes in Hebrew, in 16th and 17th century hands (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 155 × 114 × 71 mm (size of binding); ca. 144 × 102 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square type script, with vocalisation.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: https://data.cerl.org/mei/02124063.
"Contents: Middle commentary on Aristotle's Physics (ff. 1r-94(iii)v and 141v-143v). Middle commentary on Aristotle's De anima (ff. 95v-141r). Middle commentary on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione (ff. 144v-179v)."
Written by several hands in semi-cursive and cursive Sefardic scripts. The manuscript does not include the end of the commentary. Several pages contain glosses.For a detailed description, please see www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.
Epitome of Tanḥum ben Joseph's commentary on the Prior Prophets and on parts of Isaiah (the latter agrees with Abū al-Walīd Marwān Ibn Janāḥ's Kitāb al-Ussūl)
Katuv sham (glosses on Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi's Sefer ha-Maʼor, on Talmud Bavli Giṭin, Yevamot, Ketubot, the three Bavot, Sanhedrin and Makot)
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Miscellany (Abraham Maimonides's answers to Daniel ha-Bavli's questions on the Mishneh Torah. Abraham Maimonides's answers to Daniel ha-Bavli's questions on Maimonides's Sefer ha-Mitsṿot)
Miscellany (Abraham ben Jacob Saba's Eshkol ha-kofer, a commentary on Ruth; Joseph Caspi's Ḥatsotserot kesef, a commentary on Ecclesiastes; Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov's commentary on the Hagadah)
Miscellany (David ben Joshua ben Abraham Maimonides's al-Murshid ilá al-tafarud ṿa-al-murfid ilá al-tag arud; Ibn Gabirol's Tiḳun midot ha-nefesh in Judaeo-Arabic translation)
Miscellany (David ben Joshua ben Abraham Maimonides's commentary on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah (Sefer ha-zemanim: Hilkhot ḳidush ha-ḥodesh); commentary on the Sefer yetsirah, attributed to Abraham ben David of Posquières)
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
Record origin: Description based in part on Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Vol. 1: Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 794-796, Entry 242.
Dimensions: 142 mm wide × 195 mm high (size of leaf).Hand: Ashkenazi cursive.Record origin: Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2205, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2205, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ (ff. 1-6 and 12b-236b, two centre columns). Dīvān-i Maghribī (ff. 3b-124b, margin column, and 7a-12a, two centre columns). Dīvān-i Qāsim-i Anvār (ff. 124b-317b, margin column).Decoration: 11 miniatures. Decorative borders etc.Dimensions: 12⅛ × 7⅞ in.Hand: Excellent Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Binding: Yellow and red goatskin, covered in lacquer, painted with birds, flowers and butterflies. Rebacked.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Muḥammad ʻAṣṣār Tabrīzī, Mihr va-Mushtarī (ff. 1b-260a, centre columns). Ghazālī Mashhadī, Naqsh-i badīʻ (ff. 260b-287a). Saʻdī, Khulāṣah-ʼi Būstān (ff. 287b-298b). Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khusraw va-Shīrīn (ff. 3b-270a, margin column).Decoration: Unwan. 9 miniatures. Decorative borders etc.Dimensions: 10 × 5⅝ in.Hand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."
Binding: Paper boards.Contents note: On the final page laid out as versified text as normally found in the liturgy are the following verses: "In the name of the Lord God of / Israel let us sing / And make completion / An anthology from the anthology of prayers / And praises and words of / Wisdom and the festival and Sabbath / Liturgies and the words / Of the priests / And elders upon them the / Favour of the Lord and his pardons / supreme. Amen, for the / sake of / Moses the Faithful, Amen / Amen"Contents note: Around the versified text is woven in words the statement: "The peace of Yahweh be upon our master Moses the son of Amram the prophet."Dimensions: 195mm (height) x 151mm (width)Record origin: "Description based on Library's correspondence with Alan Crown (6 October 1995)."