Oxford, Bodleian MS. Canonici Or. 27

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Quill

There is ruling

Framework only

20

20

150

107

107

68

1481

15th Century CE

Italy, Mantua

Italy

Hebrew

Liturgy

Mixed

Personal prayer (fol. 1v) and two commercial notes in Italian in Hebrew characters (fol. 2r, 3r). Owner's inscriptions: שלי שלמה ידידה בכ"ר ישראל זצ"ל (fol. 2v); "questo libero el miho d[e] Salamono de Israelo Pereho" (fol. 322v). Censor's signature: "visto per mi fra Luigi da Bologna ... 1599" (fol. 321v)

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. 1071.
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. 1071.

SfarData record:
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C155
(Accessed on 07/03/2024)

Ktiv record:
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990000708460205171&scope=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS
(Accessed on 07/03/2024)