Binding: Late 16th or early 17th century calf over wooden boards, with blind-tooled panels and rolls and centrepiece ornaments on both boards; sewn onto four supports, with raised bands; remains of metal clasps; text block edges sprinkled red.Contents note: Includes vocalised text of Five Scrolls. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in Sephardi cursive script.Decoration: Title page decorated with simple floral motifs.Dimensions: 200mm (height) x 158mm (width) x 48mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in a larger square script and vocalised; Almosnino’s commentary that surrounds it is in a semi-cursive script. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and corner fleurons; sewn onto five supports; title in gilt and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled brown; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards the edge of lower fore-edge); paper tab at the head of lower board.Decoration: "Woodcuts: Bomberg's architectural title pageDecoration: featuring a large arch supported by two columns adorned with flowers and leafy branches; small floriated cartouche enclosing initial word at beginning of text."Dimensions: 317mm (height) × 217mm (width) × 35mm (depth)Layout: Text printed in Hebrew type, in two columns and marginal annotations. Block print, vowelized on demonstrative and quoted passages; marginalia in cursive script (so-called Rashi script).
Binding: Brown leather binding, repaired, gold-tooled.Collation: Quires of 8 leaves up to f. 169, after f. 169 10 leaves; catchwords at the end of the quires.Contents note: Commentaries in the margins. The name Menaḥem is pointed out on fol. 65r.Contents note: Refoliated. The references in Neubauer should be amended, as follows: for ‘fol. 28b’ read fol. 33v; ‘63’, 73; ‘70b’, 80v; ‘96b’, 106v; ‘97’, 107; ‘111’, 121; ‘112b’, 122v; ‘114b’, 124v; ‘115’, 125; ‘115b’, 125v; ‘116b’, 126v; ‘117b’, 127v; ‘119’, 129; ‘121’, 131; ‘122’, 132; ‘145b’, 155v; ‘146’, 156; ‘147b’, 157v; ‘148b’, 158v; ‘149’, 159; ‘150’, 160; ‘153’, 163; ‘153b’, 163v; ‘156b’, 166v; ‘157’, 167; ‘159’, 169; ‘160’, 170; ‘165’, 175; ‘176b’, 186v.Dimensions: 160 mm wide × 210 mm high (size of leaf).Hand: Ashkenazi square script. Menaḥem (?) copied up to fol. 124v (or perhaps up to fol. 128v, end of the quire). Fols. 129r-155r are copied by another hand, and fols. 155v-168v by several different hands (but fols. 155v-156v may be by the hand of the main copyist). Fols. 169-188 are part of another manuscript, written in Ashkenazi (French?) semi-cursive script. The marginal columns on fols. 65v-66v by a different hand.Layout: Drypoint ruling is often visible.Record origin: Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2138, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2138, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Binding: 18th century calf over pasteboards, with blind-tooled panels; sewn onto five supports; blind-tooling, title and shelfmark on the spine.Contents note: Some marginal reading marks in pencil.Decoration: Simple ornamental motifs on title page and throughout the volume.Dimensions: 236mm (height) × 177mm (width) × 21mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts. Several illustrative genealogical diagrams.
Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Contents note: Kabbalistic commentary on Jewish liturgy. Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title page printed in an hourglass shape.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Complete Torah scroll with two wooden rollers and embroidered velvet mantle.Contents: Pentateuch, i.e. the first Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy).Extent: 54 sheets. 35.5 metres long. Width 0.5 to 0.8 m., average 0.7m.Layout: Layout corresponds to that of a typical Ashkenazi Torah scroll. Text is written, in average, in three columns per parchment sheet. There are 50 lines of text per column.Hand: Ashkenazi square script (STAM).Decoration: With tagin; wooden rollers have been decorated both on the outside and the inside.Binding: Embroidered velvet mantle.
Binding: 19th century blind-tooled half-calf over pasteboards; sewn onto five supports; with gold-tooling and title on the spine.Contents note: On the biblical book of Genesis only. Bibliographical details (in manuscript) in Latin on verso of last front flyleaf.Dimensions: 315mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 18mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Hand: Ashkenazic cursive script.Record origin: "Description based on: NeubauerRecord origin: A.Record origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian LibraryRecord origin: OxfordRecord origin: 1886; Beit-AriéRecord origin: MalachiRecord origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library : supplement of addenda and corrigenda to Vol. 1 (A. Neubauer's catalogue)Record origin: 1994."
Binding: 17th century reversed calf over pasteboards; sewn onto three supports; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Contents: Commentary on the book of Ruth, with the biblical text.Contents note: Includes an introduction by the author and an index by his son Moses. With eulogies in prose and in poetry by Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho and by Samuel Shullam. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in a 17th century hand.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border.Dimensions: 209mm (height) x 152mm (width) x 23mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in one column (predominantly). Headpieces. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Contents note: Includes tractate Shabbat. With copious notes in Hebrew, some of them Hebrew alphabet practice exercises.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 45mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: "17th century French red morroco armorial bindingBinding: over wooden boardsBinding: with a version of Colbert’s arms stamped in gold on upper and lower boards; sewn onto six supports; Colbert's monogram ‘JBC’ stamped on the spine; text bock edges sprinkled red and blue; Christ Church shelfmark on the spine."Contents: Hebrew sermons on the weekly Torah readings.Contents note: Some marginal handwritten annotations in Hebrew (in 16th or 17th century semi-cursive Sephardi script).Dimensions: 313mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 34mm (depth).Layout: Printed in double columns. Fonts that resemble square and semi-cursive scripts.Origin note: Printing started on 22 Elul 5338, that is 4 September 1578 - end of printing in Sivan 5339, that is June/July 1579.