Oxford, Bodleian MS. Pococke 276

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Framework only

20

20

168

117.33

93

65

1425

15th Century CE

Italy, Casteldurante

Italy

Originally known as Castel delle Ripe, it was a free commune allied with the Guelph party. In 1277, it was destroyed by the Ghibellines, then rebuilt by the Provençal Guillaume Durand in 1284 and renamed Castel Durante. Today, it is known as Urbania, located in the Marche region.

Hebrew

No vowels or accents

Provenance and Acquisition:
Censors' signatures: "[...]" (fol. 55v); "Fr[a] Hipp[olitu]s 1601"; Latin inscription on fol. 58v: "Ioannis Prot(?)" (fol. 59v)

Edward Pococke's collection of oriental MSS (mostly Armenian, Hebrew and Arabic) was purchased by the Library for £800 in 1692 (see Summary Catalogue, vol. II, p. 1008).

Incomplete, in the colophon, the scribe Tanḥum ben Mosheh of Beaucaire (see Sirat, p. 256) mentions six works (books). Another part of the original manuscript is in Paris, BnF (MS hèbr. 923).

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1335.

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. 1335.

Cirat, Colette, Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 256.

SfarData record:
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C190
(Accessed on 17/06/2024)

Ktiv record:
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&scope=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990001626790205171&SearchTxt=poc,AND
(Accessed on 17/06/2024)