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General note
| MSS Vat. Rossiana 478, 556 and 553 are all parts of the same codex, a volume that included the Pentateuch, Scrolls, Haftarot and Psalms. MS Ross. 556 precedes this manuscript, ending with quire no. 30 while this manuscript begins with quire no. 31. MS Ross. 556 was copied by Elia b. Jacob ha-Kohen for Shabbetai b. Solomon and completed on Friday, 8 Sivan 5054=1294, probably in Rome (cf. MS Ross. 556). Cf. L. Mortara Ottolenghi, “Un gruppo di manoscritti ebraici romani del sec. XIII e XIV e la loro decorazione.” E. Toaff, ed., "Studi sull'ebraismo italiano in Memoria di C. Roth" (Rome 1974), pp. 141-158 and idem, “Miniature ebraiche italiane.” "Italia Judaica", i (1983), pp. 218-220. Cf. Tietze, Rossiana, p. 67, nr. 99. |
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