Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century English vellum with blind-tooled borders; sewn onto three supports; with shelfmark on the spine.Contents: Hebrew words with Latin and Greek translations, and biblical references.Contents note: Inscribed on pastedown of upper board: ‘Anno 1779. Ludovicus Bagot, Aedis Christi Decanus dono dedit librum hunc ab Edvardo Griffith A.B. ex aula Magdaleno, Oxon. conscriptum Edv. Griffith obiit 1753’.Dimensions: 223 x 174 x 28 mm (size of binding); ca. 216-199 x 165 mm (size of leaf)Hand: 18th century hand.Layout: Text written in two columns, from left to right; first column is in Hebrew, arranged alphabetically and the second column is in Latin, with biblical references and translations in Latin and Greek.Record origin: Description based on Kitchin, Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1867).
Leaf from Saʿadya’s commentary on the book of Isaiah. There is an owner’s note, written in large outline script, for Jacob he-Ḥaver b. Job. A smaller and neater colophon identifies the work and states that it was purchased by Josiah he-Ḥaver b. Aaron ‘the distinguished’ son of Josiah, Av. He bought it in the year that he was ordained into the Jerusalem Academy (בישיבה הקדושה ישיבת הצבי), the year 4791 of the Era of Creation (= 1030-1031 CE), in Acre. Later, presumably during the First Crusade, the book fell into Crusader hands and someone, holding the book upside down as if it was a Western book, wrote a short note in Latin identifying its contents: ‘[interpre]tacio esaya prophete’. During their conquest of the Holy Land, the Crusaders took not only prisoners for ransom but also Jewish books and scrolls. This leaf is presumably from one of the books that passed through Crusader hands but was eventually sold back to the Jewish community.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 43 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Library copy has dated inscription " Ex libris francisci, Sauuin Medici 1666" on title page. Library copy lacks volume 3. This book was acquired with the generous support of the Margaret R. King and Margaret W. Harmon Endowment.
The manuscript comprises a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, followed by a glossary that presents further etymological parallels with related Oriental languages. Its method of helping students to identify the root letters of Hebrew words, was first developed by German Orientalist, and Professor of Hebrew, at the University of Leipzig, Elias Hutter (ca. 1553-1609).Contents: A manuscript note by Samuel Rolles Driver (i). Title page (ii). Preface (iii-vii). Dictionary (1r-43v). Glossary (44r-50v).Extent: ff 52. 440 x 280 x 20 mm.Hand: 18th century English hand.Binding: 18th century half-calf over paper boards.Additional information: Rahel Fronda, Jewish Books and their Christian Readers: Christ Church Connections (Oxford: Christ Church, 2017), pp. 92-96.
cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis Iosephi Scaligeri et Thomæ Erpenii.Arabic title transliterated.BM 6:309 notes edited by Thomas Erpenius.Signatures: *⁴A-Q⁴ (Q4 blank, present).In Arabic and Latin.
Binding: "17th century calf over pasteboards; pairs of blind fillets towards outer edges of boards; pairs of blind fillets forming inner rectangle design; blind stamped corner pieces (fleurons) to inner rectangle; sewn on five supports; raised bands and blind tooling on spine; blind roll tooled decoration around board edges; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards edge of lower fore-edge); text block edges sprinkled red; spine labelled '16'."Contents: MER.119.f.17(1): ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm Zanjānī, Kitāb al-tasrīf taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imāmi, (pp. i-120). MER.119.f.17(2): Isaac ben Joseph Karo, Zeh sefer Toldot Yitsḥaḳ : perush ʻal ha-Torah (ff. 1a-99b). MER.119.f.17(3): Midrash ha-neʿelam on Genesis (ff. 1a-58b). Responsa concerning tsitsit and Shabbat (ff. 59a-60a). Zohar on certain parashiyot, mostly from the book of Leviticus (ff. 60b-111b). Colophon (f. 111b). Zohar on parashat Pekude; Heikhalot (ff. 112a-124b).Dimensions: 266 x 200 x 59 mm (size of binding); ca. 260 x 198 mm (size of leaf).Record origin: Description provided by Rahel Fronda.