Oxford, Bodleian MS. Laud Or. 271

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Quill

There is ruling

Hard point

Framework only

45

45

330

230

250

150

1226/1227

Ashkenaz

Hebrew

• Liturgy
• Liturgy commentary

No vowels or accents

The earliest Ashkenazi codex to be written in a semi-cursive script (M. Beit-Ariè).

Provenance and Acquisition:

Ownership inscription: "Liber Guil[ielmi] Laude Archiepi[scopi] Cantuarij et Cancellarii Universit. Oxon[iensis] 1636" (fol.1r)

Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1206.
‫ כה"י תואר ע"י א’ גרוסמן, באורח מדע-מחקרים...לאהרן מירסקי (לוד, תשמ"ו), עמ’ 45-468. ‬
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. 1206.

Beit-Arie, Malachi. Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books: The Evolution of Manuscript Production - Progression or Regression (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003), 71, n17

Hollender, Elisabeth. Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz(Studia Judaica 42)(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008), *9.

SfarData record:
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C713
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Ktiv record:
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&scope=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990000623800205171&SearchTxt=laud.,AND
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