Vatican MS. Neofiti 5

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican, Vatican)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Quill

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

37

37

263

204

184

132

1469

15th Century CE

Italy

Hebrew

Bible commentary

No vowels or accents

Colophon
“Blessed is He who gives strength to the weary and increases the vigor of those who have no strength.”
Today, Friday, the seventeenth day of the month of Elul, in the year [indicated by the phrase] “He will guide the humble in justice, and teach the humble His way” (Psalms 25:9).
I, the young Shabbetai, servant of the Lord, son of the honoured teacher and rabbi Yehoshua, may he live long, wrote this commentary for Nezer ha-Baḥurim (“The Crown of the Young Men”), belonging to Shem Tov Tilio, son of Rabbi Abraham Tili. I completed it on the day mentioned above, here in Naples, under his supervision.
And just as the Holy One, blessed be He, granted me the merit of bringing it to completion, so may He, in His mercy, grant His favour to him, his sons, and his grandsons, for a hundred generations to come. And may He fulfil for us the verse: “You shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may observe and do everything written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success” (Joshua 1:8).
Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves! May neither the scribe nor the reader suffer harm, neither today nor ever, until a donkey climbs a ladder.
A Pirolo. “I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.”
With the help of Heaven (f. 100a).

https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0E213 (Date accessed: 2026-10-15)

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https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Neofiti.5 (Date accessed: 2026-10-15)

G. Sacerdote, I codici ebraici della Pia Casa dei Neofiti in Roma, Rome 1893

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)