Florence, BNCF, MS. Magliabechiano III. 45

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy)

Codex

Parchment

Black (carbon based)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

19

19

300

100

90

60

13th Century CE

Italy

Hebrew

At the beginning of the manuscript are four leaves written in a twelfth–thirteenth-century hand, containing a cycle of yotzerot (liturgical poems) that includes short poems on the Torah portions composed by Joseph Abitur (incomplete).

No vowels or accents

Ownership inscriptions: on the leaf preceding the beginning of the commentary: “It came into my share, Yoav’s, when I divided the books with my brother Master Barukh (?) and my grandson (?) Rabbi Yosef …”

“Belongs to me, Yehudah son of Solomon, may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him, son of the late Rabbi Yehudah; I purchased it from Master Solomon son of the late Rabbi Avigdor.”

“Belongs to me, Yequtiʾel son of Yoav.”

“I, Solomon son of our teacher Rabbi Avigdor, acknowledge that I sold this book to Master Yehudah son of Solomon.”

At the end of the manuscript appear further ownership records:

“I, Mordekhai son of the late Rabbi Yehudah, acknowledge that, as sindaco of the community, as recorded in the document written by Mimeno (?) di Paolo Grasso, I sold this commentary … to Rabbi Avigdor son of our teacher Rabbi Solomon, may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him, with the authorization of my masters, the appointed leaders: Rabbi Elḥanan son of Yoav Posco (?), of blessed memory, and Rabbi Yehudah son of Menaḥem, of blessed memory; and the community received the payment, as recorded in the community register (pinqas).”

“Belongs to me, Yoav son of our teacher Rabbi David.”

https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/ZE366 (Date accessed: 2026-06-19)

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D. Castelli, "Catalogo dei codici ebraici Magliabechiani e Riccardiani di Firenze", in Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana, xv-xvi (1902-3), pp. 169-175, no. 11