Description of British Library, Add MS 19653: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i (תורה עם פרוש רש"י) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19653: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i (תורה עם פרוש רש"י) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 19653: Torah ʿim perush Rash"i (תורה עם פרוש רש"י). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. First and last pages are partly stained. Vanilla-dotted hair side of the folios. Doodling and previous owners' notes on folio 231v. Natan Margalit, inscribed in a note, with a date of 18 Tevet 602 (31 December 1841), folio 231v. Antonio Francesco Enriquez, active in 1683-1688 in Urbino, inscribed with a date of 1680 (1687?), folio 231v. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 19653 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19653 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary. Hebrew Torah ʿim perush Rash"i (תורה עם פרוש רש"י) 2r Genesis 57v Exodus 117v Leviticus 154r Numbers 195v Deuteronomy

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 231 folios; 231 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Uniform layuot. Visible hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Marginal notes and smaller omissions from text added by later hand. Italian semi-cursive script, not punctuated, of the 15th century. Shelomoh ben Mosheh ben Shelomoh ha-Rofeʾ : inscribed in the colophon, folio 231r.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Rashi. Commentary on the Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,653.'

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Italy Acquisition: John (sic!) Finn, most probably James Finn (b. 1806, d. 1872), British Consul in Jerusalem 1846-1863: purchased by the British Museum on 13 November 1852; received 01 November 1853: inscribed, [234v].