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Title

Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot ʿim perush Rash"i (תורה, מגילות והפטרות עם פרוש רש"י)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Egerton MS 872
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_872
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch with the Hafṭarot, on the Five Scrolls and on the Hafṭarot for festivals.

Extent

[ii]+287+[ii]; [ii]+287+[ii]

Foliation

Parallel Hebrew foliation.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Leather boards with embossed golden coat of arm (of Francis Henry Egerton?). Spine: 'Commentarius In Pentateuchum. Quinque Megilloth. Et Lectiones Propheticas. Exaratus Anno 1346. Mus. Brit. Bibl. Egerton. 872. Plut. DXIX.E.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Pricking and ruling visible. The commentary of each parashah followed by its respective Hafṭarah. Several marginal notes.

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from Hen. Bohn, 26 September 1840: inscribed (flyleaf [iii]v); probably Henry George Bohn (b. 1796, d. 1884), translator and publisher. Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
   

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. 1r — Genesis
• fol. 61v — Exodus
• fol. 126r — Leviticus
• fol. 162v — Numbers
• fol. 200r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 240v — Esther
• fol. 243r — Song of Songs
• fol. 253r — Ruth
• fol. 254v — Lamentations
• fol. 259r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 270r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for the New Moon
• fol. 271v — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for the Ninth of Av
• fol. 272r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for four special sabbaths
• fol. 275r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for Passover
• fol. 280r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for Pentecost
• fol. 282r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for New Year
• fol. 284r — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for the Day of Atonement
• fol. 285v — Rashi's commentary on the Hafṭarot for the Feat of Tabernacles