ספר רפואות

Title:

ספר רפואות

Creator:

Author: Asaph, ha-Rofe, active 6th century

Date:

c. 1200 or 13th century, early

Description:

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.

Language:

Hebrew

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Geographic region:

Ashkenaz

Provenance:

Former owner: Oppenheim, GnendelFormer owner: Daṿid ha-ḲaṭanFormer owner: Oppenheim, JosephFormer owner: Oppenheim, David ben Abraham, 1664-1736Former owner: Yosef ben Me͗irOwnership inscription: Daṿid ha-Ḳaṭan sold it on 10 Ṭevet 5304 (17 December 1543 in the Gregorian calendar) to Yosef ben Me͗ir (on fol. 80v). David Oppenheim (1664-1736), Chief Rabbi of Prague, kept his Library in Hanover and left it to his only son, Joseph; after the latter’s death in 1739 it passed to his daughter Gnendel and moved to Hildesheim. In the 1820s the then owners put it up for sale, and after negotiations that started in 1826, it was sold to the Bodleian Library in 1828 for £ 2,080 and arrived in Oxford in 1829.

Medium:

Parchment

Extent:

ff. 188.

Rights:

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Identifier:

Neubauer 2138
Bodleian Library MS. Oppenheim 687

Is part of:

Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books

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