Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Kabbalistic commentary on Jewish liturgy. Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title page printed in an hourglass shape.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai was a kabbalist who was born in Spain in 1480 and later probably lived in the East. Tola‘at Ya‘aḳov is his first major work, completed in 1507. It comprises a kabbalistic commentary on the liturgy. Ibn Gabbai was well versed in the kabbalistic lore and his importance lies in his systematic approach to the sources (e.g. the Zohar as the canonical book of the kabbalah).
Complete Torah scroll with two wooden rollers and embroidered velvet mantle.Contents: Pentateuch, i.e. the first Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy).Extent: 54 sheets. 35.5 metres long. Width 0.5 to 0.8 m., average 0.7m.Layout: Layout corresponds to that of a typical Ashkenazi Torah scroll. Text is written, in average, in three columns per parchment sheet. There are 50 lines of text per column.Hand: Ashkenazi square script (STAM).Decoration: With tagin; wooden rollers have been decorated both on the outside and the inside.Binding: Embroidered velvet mantle.
Binding: 19th century blind-tooled half-calf over pasteboards; sewn onto five supports; with gold-tooling and title on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: On the biblical book of Genesis only. Bibliographical details (in manuscript) in Latin on verso of last front flyleaf.Dimensions: 315mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 18mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Torat Mosheh was written by the 16th century rabbi and scholar Moses Alshekh (1508-1593). Alshekh had studied under Joseph Caro and later became a rabbinic authority in Safed in Palestine. Jewish law, biblical exegesis, kabbalah and philosophy were among his main fields of interest. Alshekh’s homiletical commentaries on the Torah and Prophets have been influential since his lifetime and remain popular until this day. The first edition of his Torat Mosheh was printed in Belvedere, near Constantinople in around 1593-1594.
Hand: Ashkenazic cursive script.Record origin: "Description based on: NeubauerRecord origin: A.Record origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian LibraryRecord origin: OxfordRecord origin: 1886; Beit-AriéRecord origin: MalachiRecord origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library : supplement of addenda and corrigenda to Vol. 1 (A. Neubauer's catalogue)Record origin: 1994."פוסקים והנהגות מ"ר פרגוש
Binding: 19th century black marbled paper over pasteboards; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Jewish liturgical texts; Jewish customs and practices; Haggadah.Dimensions: 226 × 188 × 22 mm.Layout: Text printed in a number of different Hebrew and Yiddish types, mostly in two columns. Block print, bold and vowelized on demonstrative and quoted passages; Yiddish text appears in a different, so-called cursive script.A complete collection of all customs, observances and prayer formulas of contemporary Polish and German Jews, for the entire year.
Binding: 17th century reversed calf over pasteboards; sewn onto three supports; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Commentary on the book of Ruth, with the biblical text.Contents note: Includes an introduction by the author and an index by his son Moses. With eulogies in prose and in poetry by Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho and by Samuel Shullam. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in a 17th century hand.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border.Dimensions: 209mm (height) x 152mm (width) x 23mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in one column (predominantly). Headpieces. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Solomon ben Moses ha-Levi Alkabeẓ was a rabbi, kabbalist and a poet who was active in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. He was surrounded by a number of eminent scholars and kabbalists, such as Moses Alsekh, Joseph Karo, Moses Cordovero and his students included Samuel Uceda and Abraham Galante. Alkabeẓ’s ‘Shoresh Yishai’ that was printed in 1560/1561 in Constantinople is the first edition of his commentary on the biblical book of Ruth. The book of Ruth is read during the holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) and Alkabeẓ along his circle of kabbalists were keen on this custom.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractate Shabbat. With copious notes in Hebrew, some of them Hebrew alphabet practice exercises.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 45mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: "17th century French red morroco armorial bindingBinding: over wooden boardsBinding: with a version of Colbert’s arms stamped in gold on upper and lower boards; sewn onto six supports; Colbert's monogram ‘JBC’ stamped on the spine; text bock edges sprinkled red and blue; Christ Church shelfmark on the spine."Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Hebrew sermons on the weekly Torah readings.Contents note: Some marginal handwritten annotations in Hebrew (in 16th or 17th century semi-cursive Sephardi script).Dimensions: 313mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 34mm (depth).Layout: Printed in double columns. Fonts that resemble square and semi-cursive scripts.Origin note: Printing started on 22 Elul 5338, that is 4 September 1578 - end of printing in Sivan 5339, that is June/July 1579.Isaac ben Moses Arollia (or, Arroyo) was a scholar and a rabbi of the Portuguese community in Salonica in the 16th century. The editio princeps of Tanḥumot ’El includes Arollia’s thirty philosophical and ethical sermons on the Pentateuch and was printed in Salonica between 1578-1579 as the first work published by David ben Avraham Azubib.
Full catalogue record in Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford UniversityHebrew translation of part of the Arabic original Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-nafs (Epitome of De Anima).