Biblioteca Palatina (Parma, Italy)

Parma, Palatina MS. Parm. 2623: Main text scribe - Non-square (Beinoni)

Scribe not identified

Main text scribe

Sfardata record suggests אריה חלפן to be the scribe of the MS, however, Richler's catalogue notes that "[the text] No. 1 was copied by Aryeh Halfan who signed his name on f. 12v:. קזח הירא ןפלח . He is to be identified with Aryeh b. Eliezer Halfan who copied other MSS in Italy between 1477 and 1495 in a variety of Italian, Ashkenazic and Sephardic scripts, among them MS 1754 (Cremona 1479) and the undated MS 2541 (nos. 935, and 518). In MS Leeds, University Library 320 he adds the cognomen יתפרצ (the Frenchman) to his name. The rest of the MS was copied by another, very similar hand". Since I have only ff. 15r and 15v, and the text No. 1 ends on f. 12v, I cannot compare the hand of Arieh Halfan with the hand that did ff. 15r-15v. Thus this specimen has "unidentified scribe" and not Halfan.

Non-square (Beinoni)

Calligraphic

Bookhand

Stable

Slow

Irregular spacing

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