Vatican MS. Vat. Ebr. 458

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican, Vatican)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

There is ruling

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

25

25

218

156

130

87

1446

15th Century CE

Italy, Ferrara

Italy

Hebrew

No vowels or accents

Colophon: “This is the book that offers graceful words. I have written it for the cluster of cypress blossoms, a scion of noble lineage and distinction, to whom praise is due: the learned and intelligent young man, the honourable Menachem, may the Rock preserve and sustain him, son of the honourable Yequtiel Panzi, may his memory be blessed, son of the honourable Shelomoh Panzi, the physician, of blessed memory.

I completed it in the month of Av, may the day of sorrow and lamentation be turned into joy, in the year expressed by the words ‘My heart overflows with a goodly theme’ (Psalm 45:2), here in Ferrara.

I am Yitzḥaq Zarek, son of the honourable Zeraḥyah, of blessed memory, and I wrote it for the community.

May the writer be strengthened and the reader encouraged.”

https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0E184 (Date accessed: 2026-11-09)

990001968780205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=KTIV&scope=KTIV&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990001968790205171&SearchTxt=ebr.%20458,AND (Date accessed: 2026-11-09)

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)

P. Vian, «Una cambiale scontata prima di presentarsi ufficialmente allo sportello»? Achille Ratti prefetto della biblioteca vaticana (1914-1918), In Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XVIII, 2011.