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Title

Torah ῾im perush Rashi (תורה עם פרוש רש"י)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5772
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5772
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

Pentateuch, accompanied with punctuation and accents, Rashi's commentary and Targum.

Notes

• Ink partly fading.
   
• Leṿi Ḥalpan: inscribed, folio 224r.
   
• Ben Tsiyon ben Refa'el Mitantso and Daṿid Merts: inscribed with their names in the contract of sale, with a date of 15 Siṿan 283 (08 June 1523), folio 225r.
   
• The same folio contains a record of birth of 4 children of the latter owner, dated from 1523 to 1533.
   
• Domenico Irosolimitano, Italian censor (active 1585 - 1624): inscribed with his name, 1593 (folio 224v); see 61.
   
• Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600 - 1624): inscribed with his name, 1628 (folio 224v); see 100-101.
   

Extent

225 folios; 225 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather with gold-tooling, the Harley coat of arms in the centre. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Targum & Rashi's Commentary. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Harleian Ms. 5772.'

Layout

Columns: 2 3; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 31; Pricking and ink ruling are visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. The books of the Torah, which are commented upon, are often written in two columns. Rashi's commentary is often arranged in an ornamental design (see e.g. 49v, 52r, 52v, 55r, 59v). Folio 225r is written upside down. Censorial erasures, folios 68v, 82r.

Script

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century, partially punctuated and accentuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts: inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 18 Jan. 1723/1724. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

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. 56r — Exodus
• fol. 105r — Leviticus
• fol. 139r — Numbers
• fol. 184r — Deuteronomy