Binding: 18th century vellum over pasteboards; sewn onto three supports; text block edges sprinkled red; with shelfmark on the spine.Contents: Canon Avicenna, Book I, sens 1-3 (ff. 1r-57r).Contents note: Marginal heading ספר בחכמות הרפואות has been added by a later, Sefardi hand.Decoration: Simple pen-work decorations to mark the beginnings of new sections (done by the scribe).Dimensions: 205 × 160 × 16 mm (size of binding); 198 × 142 mm (size of leaf).Hand: Semi-cursive Italian-Ashkenazi script, ca. 1500.Layout: Text is written in brown ink (from dark to light brown), in one column. Some marginal glosses in Hebrew.Record origin: Description based on Neubauer and Beit-Arié.
Binding: 17th century blind-tooled calf over paper boards; with imprint details in gilt and shelfmark on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Bible: Pentateuch. Sermons.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border. Head- and tailpieces.Dimensions: 293mm (height) x 207mm (width) x 80mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
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: Saʿadia’s Book of Beliefs and Opinions is prefaced by an introduction and has ten chapters. 1. The creation of the world; 2. The unity of the Creator; 3. Revelation and the Commandments; 4. Free will: obedience and disobedience; 5. Merit and demerit; 6. The soul and death; 7. The resurrection of the dead; 8. Messianic redemption; 9. The world to come; 10. Moral conduct, thought and belief.Contents note: Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title printed within an ornamental border.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: Late 16th or early 17th century calf over wooden boards, with blind-tooled panels and rolls and centrepiece ornaments on both boards; sewn onto four supports, with raised bands; remains of metal clasps; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes vocalised text of Five Scrolls. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in Sephardi cursive script.Decoration: Title page decorated with simple floral motifs.Dimensions: 200mm (height) x 158mm (width) x 48mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in a larger square script and vocalised; Almosnino’s commentary that surrounds it is in a semi-cursive script. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and corner fleurons; sewn onto five supports; title in gilt and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled brown; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards the edge of lower fore-edge); paper tab at the head of lower board.Full catalogue description in SOLODecoration: "Woodcuts: Bomberg's architectural title pageDecoration: featuring a large arch supported by two columns adorned with flowers and leafy branches; small floriated cartouche enclosing initial word at beginning of text."Dimensions: 317mm (height) × 217mm (width) × 35mm (depth)Layout: Text printed in Hebrew type, in two columns and marginal annotations. Block print, vowelized on demonstrative and quoted passages; marginalia in cursive script (so-called Rashi script).
Binding: Brown leather binding, repaired, gold-tooled.Collation: Quires of 8 leaves up to f. 169, after f. 169 10 leaves; catchwords at the end of the quires.Contents note: Commentaries in the margins. The name Menaḥem is pointed out on fol. 65r.Contents note: Refoliated. The references in Neubauer should be amended, as follows: for ‘fol. 28b’ read fol. 33v; ‘63’, 73; ‘70b’, 80v; ‘96b’, 106v; ‘97’, 107; ‘111’, 121; ‘112b’, 122v; ‘114b’, 124v; ‘115’, 125; ‘115b’, 125v; ‘116b’, 126v; ‘117b’, 127v; ‘119’, 129; ‘121’, 131; ‘122’, 132; ‘145b’, 155v; ‘146’, 156; ‘147b’, 157v; ‘148b’, 158v; ‘149’, 159; ‘150’, 160; ‘153’, 163; ‘153b’, 163v; ‘156b’, 166v; ‘157’, 167; ‘159’, 169; ‘160’, 170; ‘165’, 175; ‘176b’, 186v.Dimensions: 160 mm wide × 210 mm high (size of leaf).Hand: Ashkenazi square script. Menaḥem (?) copied up to fol. 124v (or perhaps up to fol. 128v, end of the quire). Fols. 129r-155r are copied by another hand, and fols. 155v-168v by several different hands (but fols. 155v-156v may be by the hand of the main copyist). Fols. 169-188 are part of another manuscript, written in Ashkenazi (French?) semi-cursive script. The marginal columns on fols. 65v-66v by a different hand.Layout: Drypoint ruling is often visible.Record origin: Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2138, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2138, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Binding: 18th century calf over pasteboards, with blind-tooled panels; sewn onto five supports; blind-tooling, title and shelfmark on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Some marginal reading marks in pencil.Decoration: Simple ornamental motifs on title page and throughout the volume.Dimensions: 236mm (height) × 177mm (width) × 21mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts. Several illustrative genealogical diagrams.
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.
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.
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."
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.