Oxford, Bodleian MS. Oppenheim 776

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Codex

Parchment

Quill

There is ruling

Metallic point leaving coloured traces

Framework only

21

21

94

82

71

47

1471

15th Century CE

Germany

Ashkenaz

Hebrew

Liturgy

No vowels or accents

It belonged to David Oppenheimer's (1667-1735) library, which was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1829.

https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C158 (Date accessed: 2025-01-16)

990000625180205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=KTIV&scope=KTIV&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990000625180205171&SearchTxt=opp.,AND (Date accessed: 2025-01-16)

https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_400 (Date accessed: 2025-01-16)

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1126.

Metzger, Thérèse, and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), pp. 306-307

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. 1126.

Wijsman, Suzanne, “The Oppenheimer Siddur: Artist and Scribe in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Prayer Book”, in Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Meeting-Place of Cultures, Piet van Boxel and Sabine Arndt, eds. (Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2009), pp. 69-84