Oxford, Bodleian MS. Bodley Or. 804

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Quill

There is ruling

Metallic point leaving coloured traces

Framework only

42

42

550

385

353

265

14th Century CE

Ashkenaz

Produced in Germany?

Hebrew

Bible

Complete

Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. 1v: "this booke was taken at Ormus in the East India and brought home [about 160?] by Captaine Richard Blythe, who gave it to his cosen Josua Downyng, and he gave it to his loving freind [Mr. Thomas] Gataker Parson of Rotherhithe."

Thomas Gataker, parson of Rotherhithe gave the volume to the Bodleian Library in 1620 or 1621 (https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_84)

Kennicott, Benjamin, Dissertatio generalis in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum: cum variis lectionibus, ex codicibus manuscriptis et impressis. Recudi curavit et notas adiecit Paulus Iacobus Bruns. Brunovici: Orphanotrophei, 1783

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 4

Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 4

SfarData record:
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/ZC320 (accessed on 15/01/2024)