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Detailed record for Additional 27167
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| Title |
Pentateuch (the 'Almanzi Pentateuch') with Haftarot and Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot) |
| Origin |
Portugal (Lisbon) |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, punctuated |
| Decoration |
5 frontispieces with initial-word panels and full floral border, in colours and gold (ff. 11v, 86, 149v, 192v, 256). 30 masoretic lists decorated with penwork and full pen-flourished border, in mauve ink (ff. 1v-8v, 455-462). Numerous parashah signs decorated with pen-flourishing, in mauve, blue and red ink. Numerous initial-word panels with penwork and pen-flourishing, in mauve and black ink. |
| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 120 (110 x 70) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 464 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
60 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii-xii8 (ff. 11-98), xiii6 (ff. 99-104), xiv-xv8 (ff. 105-120), xvi6 (121-126), xvii4 (ff. 127-130), xviii-xxxv8 (ff. 131-274), xxxvi6 (ff. 275-280), xxxvii-xlii8 (ff. 281-328), xliii6 (ff. 329-334), xliv-lix8 (ff. 335-462), lx2 (ff. 463-464). Catchwords, probably added later. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1660. Dark green leather binding, tooled in gold, centrepiece. |
| Provenance |
Italian inscription, 1518 (f. 10v).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 277 (f. [465]); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 [1997], 131-53): inscribed (f. [465]). |
| Select bibliography |
Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 35 (Hebrew section).
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), I, no. 83.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scentifique, 1970), pp. 70-73.
Therese 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), p. 304.
Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626, introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988), pp. 14-16 [facsimile edition].
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 64-65. |
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ff. 5v-6
Decorated masoretic lists |
f. 5v
Decorated masoretic list |
f. 6
Decorated masoretic list |
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f. 11v
Decorated frontispiece |
f. 11v
Coat of arms |
f. 25v
Decorated parashah sign |
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f. 86
Decorated frontispiece |
f. 105
Decorated parashah sign |
f. 148v
Decorated frontispiece |
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f. 148v
Owl |
f. 149
Text page |
f. 192v
Decorated frontispiece |
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f. 256
Decorated frontispiece |
f. 336
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 407v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 419v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 419v
Owls |
f. 441
Decorated initial-word panel |
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