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| 297 ff. (1–16, <1>, 17, <1>, 18–129, 160–170, 172–192, 192bis, 193–283, 285–287,
289–300, 300bis–326). Parchment. 317 × 229 (216 × 129) mm. Quaternions (first six
quires quinions). Two columns. <Germany>, 14th century. Ashkenazic square
script.
תורה (בראשית - במדבר)] ] Pentateuch (Genesis – Numbers). The text was copied
twice in parallel columns, in the right column with vowel points and accents
and in the left column without the vowel points and accents. Apparently, the
codex was used as a tikkun for practicing the reading of the Torah Scroll at
prayer services. In the second volume of this manuscript, MS Vat. ebr. 5 (the
continuation of the Pentateuch and the book of Esther) both texts read from
unvocalized scrolls in the synagogue were copied twice, with and without
vocalization, and the other books were copied only once. In the margins of this
manuscript several semi-cursive hands added the commentary by Solomon b.
Isaac (Rashi) until Numbers xxiii:10 (f. 294r). Many corrections in the margins.
The initial words of the first three books are decorated.
The task of copying this manuscript was distributed among three different
scribes as noted by Cassuto, each scribe copying complete quires. The name of
the scribe Isaac, who copied ff. 2–8, 28–37, 58–65, 82–89, 114–199, is singled out
in the text on ff. 29r, 32r, 32v, 33v and many more times. The scribe who copied
ff. 200–326 is undoubtedly Jacob b. Moses who wrote the continuation of the
text in MS Vat. ebr. 5, though ff. 289–326 display some scribal variations. Ff.
10–27, 39–57, 66–81 and 90–113 were copied by a third hand. The name of the
masorete, Aaron, is mentioned in a short colophon at the end of Exodus (f. 184v)
חזק אהרן הנקדן לא יוזק and is singled out in the text on ff. 88v and 89v. On f. 326r a
late hand added a spurious colophon dating the manuscript to 24 Sivan
4600= נכתב בשנת ארבעת אלפים ושש מאות לחדש סיון בארבעה ועשרים יום לחדש בעזרת האל 840
יתברך . Similar spurious colophons bearing the same exact date are found at the
end of MSS ebr. 5 and 6. Assemani and Kennicott considered all three
manuscripts to be volumes or parts of a single codex. In fact, MS Vat. ebr. 5 is a
continuation of MS Vat. ebr. 4, but MS Vat. ebr. 6 is not related to the other
volumes.
Ff. 1 and 38 are later completions. Owner (f. 262r): Mordecai Calo´ .אני מרדכי מלקלו
Kennicott 226. Assemani recorded the manuscript as olim Palatinus. Cassuto, Palatini, p. 75, is
dubious that the manuscript belonged to the Palatine collection. |
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