Oxford, Bodleian MS. Canonici Or. 89

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Framework only

34

34

348

250

259

165

1293

13th Century CE

Italy, Rome

Italy

Hebrew

No vowels or accents

Censors' signatures: V[incentiu]s de Matelica (256v), Iac[obu]s Geraldini 1555; Domenico Irosolomit[an]o, Aless[and]ro Scipione; Gio. Domenico Carretto, 1617 (257r).

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. 635.

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. 635.

Beit-Arie, Malachi. Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books: The Evolution of Manuscript Production - Progression or Regression (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003), 63, n6

Omnia in EO: Studies on Jewish Books and Libraries in Honour of Adri Offenberg celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, ed. Irene Zwiep et al. (Leuven: Peeters, 2006), 146.

Epstein, Marc Michael (ed.), Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), p. 57, fig. 45.

SfarData record:
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C106
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Ktiv record:
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990000900660205171&scope=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS
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