Vatican MS. Neofiti 4

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican, Vatican)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

27

27

218

148

144

84

1458

15th Century CE

Italy, Cosenza

Italy

Hebrew

Bible commentary

No vowels or accents

Colophon: “I, Pereṣ son of Samuel, copied this book, namely the Commentary on Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets, for the honourable Rabbi Solomon, my uncle, son of Samuel, Legim (?), with my own hand.

And I completed it on the third day of the week [Tuesday], the first day of the month of Adar, in the year ‘Serve the Lord with fear’ (עבדו את ה' ביראה), according to the abbreviated reckoning of the sixth millennium, here in Cosenza.

May the Lord grant him the merit of studying it, he, his descendants, and his descendants’ descendants, until the end of all generations. Amen.” (f. 278a)

https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0E202 (Date accessed: 2026-10-14)

990001130040205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=KTIV&scope=KTIV&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990001130040205171&SearchTxt=Ms.%20neof%204,AND (Date accessed: 2026-10-14)

https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Neofiti.4 (Date accessed: 2026-10-14)

G. Sacerdote, I codici ebraici della Pia Casa dei Neofiti in Roma, In Memorie dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche;

Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library; Catalogue, ..., edited by Benjamin Richler, palaeographical and codicological descriptions by Malachi Beit-Arié in collaboration with Nurit Pasternak. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2008 (Studi e Testi 438)