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Title

Gan Elohim (גן אלהים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 22092
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22092
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy
N. France

Summary

Gan Elohim, a supra-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, very similar to Minḥat Yehudah of Yehudah ben Eli῾ezer.

Notes

• Contract of sale with names erased, 1404 (folio 131r).
   
• Purchase note (15th-16th century) (folio 139r).
   
• Yehudah ha-Rofe᾿ of Aqulia (?): inscribed with his name (folio 2r).
   
• Numerous Hebrew inscriptions by Italian hands of the 15th-16th centuries (folios 1*, 2v, 139r).
   

Extent

139 folios; 139 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather. Spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 22,092.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Pricking and hard-point ruling visible. Hair side and flesh side distinguishable. Numerous marginal notes, additions, corrections by an Italian hand of 15th-16th century.

Script

Ashkenazi (French) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Rafa᾿el: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 163 [1403] (folio 130v); the name Rafa᾿el is decorated (folio 12r).

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Ashkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him in August 1857: inscribed, [140v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Genesis
• fol. 51v — Exodus
• fol. 93r — Leviticus
• fol. 105r — Numbers
• fol. 118v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 131v — Notes