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	^(VII) Img. ID: 20445	Munich Rashi's Commentary on the Bible , Vol. I, fol. 184v, Würzburg, 1232/33 edit
	Category:	Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts	General Document

2	Name/Title	Munich Rashi's Commentary on the Bible \| Unknown
3a	Object	Biblical commentaries
3b	Object Detail	Vol. I, fol. 184v
4a	Artist/ Maker	Shlomo ben Shmuel,Joseph (Scribe)
5	Date	1232/33
5a	Activity Dates
5b	Reconstruction Dates
6	Period	Unknown
6a	Period Detail
7	Origin	Germany \| Bayern (Bavaria) \| Würzburg \|
8	Community	Ashkenazi \|
9	Collection	Germany \| Munich \| Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) \| Cod. hebr. 5/I-II (Steinschneider 1895, No. 5)
10	Location	Germany \| Bayern (Bavaria) \| München (Munich) \| Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) \|
11	Site	Unknown
12	School/Style	Würzburg school of manuscript illumination in the 13th century\|
13	Iconographical Subject	Shaped text \|
14	Category
15	Object Copyright	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
16	Photograph Copyright	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
17	Photographer	Unknown
18	Photograph Date	2008
19	Negative/ Photo. No.
19a	Scan No.
20	Description	Vol. I, fol. 184v: At the end of the Book of Judges is a small diagram which maps the position of the town of Shiloh in relation to Bethel, Lebonah and Shechem (Judg. 21:19-22). The biblical text and Rashi's commentary (I:184v) indicate that Shiloh is placed to the north of Betheland south of Lebonah and east of the road fromBethelto Shechem. The map includes four small rectangles set in a row, the middle two slightly higher. The rectangles are framed in red and inscribed with the names of the cities (from right to left): Bethel (בית אל), Shiloh (שילה), Lebonah (לבונה) and Shechem (שכם), written in display script in brown ink; the floral ascender of the lamed (ל) interrupts the upper borders. Above are two cardinal points: "East" is placed to the left of Betheland "North" to the left of Lebonah. The text column in the upper part of the page is written by scribe A shaped by a blank V holding a blank circle. At the bottom a rhymed end-of-book reads: Judges completed / Glory to the Lord (ספר שפטים נשלם/ תהלה למלך נעלם) written in the same display script as the names of the cities, each word outlined in wriggle work.

21	Ornamentation

Custom

Contents

24	Codicology

24a	Scribes
24b	Script
24c	Number of Lines
24d	Ruling
24e	Pricking
24f	Quires
24g	Catchwords
24h	Hebrew Numeration
24i	Blank Leaves

25	Material/Technique

Brown ink and red.

25a	Material Structure
25b	Material Decoration
25c	Material Bonding
25d	Material Inscription
25e	Material Additions
25f	Material Cloth
25g	Material Lining
25h	Tesserae Arrangement
25i	Density
25j	Colors
25k	Construction Material

26	Measurements

26a	Height
26b	Length
26c	Width
26d	Depth
26e	Circumference
26f	Thickness
26g	Diameter
26h	Weight
26i	Axis
26j	Panel Measurements

27	Direction/Location

27a	Façade (main)
27b	Entrances
27c	Location of Torah Ark
27d	Location of Apse
27e	Location of Niche
27f	Location of Reader's Desk
27g	Location of Platform
27h	Temp: Architecture Axis
27i<	Arrangement of Seats
27j	Location of Women's Section
27k	Direction Prayer
27l	Direction Toward Jerusalem

Coin

28a	Coin Series
28b	Coin Ruler
28c	Coin Year
28d	Denomination

Signature

Colophon

31	Scribal Notes

Watermark

Hallmark

33a	Group
33b	Subgroup
33c	Hallmark Identification
33d	Hallmark Group Classification
33e	Hallmark Reference

34	Trade Mark

Binding

36	Decoration Program

36	Summary and Remarks

Not all copies of Rashi's commentary have the maps of Canaan, but when they are present the map of Shiloh usually also appears (see BSB Cod. hebr. 5, I:139v-140). One example from the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century is at the end of Judges in a manuscript in Vienna (fig. 3).

A marked difference from our manuscript (fig. 4) is the connecting highway at the bottom, "leading up [from Bethel] to Shechem" (cf. Rashi on TB Gittin 7b with diagram).

Fig. 3: Map of Shiloh

Vienna Rashi's Commentary on the Bible

South Germany, 13th-14th century

Vienna, ÖNB Cod. Hebr. 12b (olim 220, Schwartz 23), fol. 103 (Jerusalem, CJA Documentation)

Fig. 4: Map of Shiloh

Munich Rashi's Commentary on the Bible

(Munich, BSB Cod. hebr. 5, I:184v)

38	Suggested Reconstruction

39	History/Provenance

40	Main Surveys & Excavations

Condition

Biography

43	Bibliography

43a	Short Name
43b	Full Name
43c	Volume
43d	Page

Type

45	Temp: Batch Number

46	Temp: Aleph Number

47	Temp: Sys. Number / Doc. Name

20445

48	Temp: Addenda

Registrar
Function:		Name:	Date:
49	Documenter			49a
50	Researcher			50a
51	Architectural Drawings			51a
52	Computer Reconstruction			52a
53	Section Head			53a
54	Editor			54a
55	Donor			55a

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