Oxford, BL, Ms. Hunt. Add. D
General
- Title
- Oxford, BL, Ms. Hunt. Add. D
- Manuscript name
- The Magnificent Parchment
- Summary
- Oxford, MS Hunt. Add. D. is a particularly fine, early, and well-preserved witness of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." Only one witness (London, BL, MS Or. 6465 Scroll © The British Library Board) carries a colophon, dating it to 1556. The original Magnificent Parchment was likely crafted ca. 1500 in northern Italy. This family of "luxury" manuscripts is distinguished by its grand scale, its graphical richness, and its 33,000 word anthological text.
- Support material
- parchment
- Main language
- Rabbinic Hebrew
- Identifier
- Ms. Hunt. Add. D
- Repository
- University of Oxford
- Country
- England
- Settlement
- Oxford
- Research literature
- A. Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford 1886). J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 59-73.
Creation time
- Date
- ca. 1600
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