United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mich. 251

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: not available
  • Pages: 295 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In quarto
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Layout:
    1 column

  • Hand Description:
    Three hands.
    Item 1: Ashkenazic cursive script.
    Items 2 and 3: Italian cursive script. Copyist: Malakhi Colorni of Modena.
    Item 4: Ashkenazic cursive script.
  • Provenance:
    Item 1: Owner: פייבש בר׳ יונה שליטא.
    Item 4: Owners: Salamon Michael Davidt (Rom. char. fol. 283v), and R. Mikhiel Hanover סגל (fol. 288v).
History
  • Origin Date: Item 1: 18th cent.
  • Origin Place: Items 1 and 4: Ashkenaz
  • Adolph Neubauer , Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford Vol. Vol. 1, Oxford (1886) , col. 493
  • Malachi Beit-Arié , Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Supplement of addenda and corrigenda to vol.1 (Neubauer's Catalogue), Oxford (1994) , col.231
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Link]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Link]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Link]
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Link]
Content
Jacob Poppers, R. Abraham ברודא, Rabbis at Frankfort; מ׳ח׳ר׳י׳ך, R. Ẓ'bhi Hirsch, Rabbi at Halberstadt; Zalman Hanover, R. Y'honathan Eybenschütz, and R. Moscheh בומסלא Casuistic and Agadic notes on passages of the Talmud and Midrashim 232r - 295v
Anonymous Collection of letters as models of style 28r - 196v
  • Note:
    402 letters, chiefly written by R. Yishmael חזק מכבר צינטו about 5373 = 1613. The letters were composed in the 16th cent., and many relate to Ishmael of Rieti; cf. MS. New York, JTS, Mic. 3833.
Anonymous Collection of letters as models of style 196r - 231v
  • Note:
    31 letters written by Malakhi Colorni of Modena about 5541 = 1741. They are important enough for the history of Italian Rabbis of that time.
Averroes Short Commentary on the Physics 2r - 24v
  • Incipit:

  • Note:
    Copied from the printed edition (Riva di Trento 1559).