Oxford, Bodleian MS. Canonici Or. 4

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Paper

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

27

27

234

160

15th Century CE

Italy

Hebrew

Linguistics

No vowels or accents

Matteo Luigi Canonici's (1727-1805) collections passed to his brother Giuseppe, and on his death in 1807 to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who divided them. To the former fell the MSS., then about 3550 in number, and, after many attempts to sell them, the Bodleian became the purchaser of the greater part in 1817, for £5444 5s. 1d., or including incidental expenses about £6030, the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The formal list of volumes handed over was signed on May 18, 1817, and the books probably arrived later that year.

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1491.
Hava Tirosh-Rothschild, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought ofRabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (Albany, 1991), 24–33.

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. 1491.

Ktiv record:
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