Description of British Library, Add MS 22092: Gan Elohim (גן אלהים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 22092: Gan Elohim (גן אלהים) 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 22092: Gan Elohim (גן אלהים). 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. 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). 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 22092 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22092 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Gan Elohim, a supra-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, very similar to Minḥat Yehudah of Yehudah ben Eli῾ezer. Hebrew Gan Elohim (גן אלהים) 3r Genesis 51v Exodus 93r Leviticus 105r Numbers 118v Deuteronomy 131v Notes

Parchment

 139 folios; 139 folios 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. 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).

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

1403

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