Obj. ID: 20942
Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts  Fugger's Fourth Commentaries on the Bible, Venice, 1550

Fugger's Fourth Venetian Commentaries on the Bible | Unknown

*Manuscripts and Printed Books | Biblical commentaries

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1550

Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Yonathan ben Yaakov Galiko (scribe)
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Itzhak ben Elijahu Manosh (scribe)
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Scribe 11
Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Scribe 12

Italy | Veneto | Venice
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Germany | Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
| Cod.hebr. 25 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 25)

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1. Commentary on Proverbs (פירוש משלי) by Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome (fols. 1-191): beginsאמר עמנואל בר' יעקב. 1st ed. Naples 1487. 2. Commentary on Song of Songs (פירוש שיר השירים) by Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome (fols. 192-262v): begins שיר השירים אשר לשלמה (Eschwege 1908). 3. Meir Job (מאיר איוב) by Meir ben Isaac Arama (fols. 263-462): begins אמר מאיר בן הרב הכולל. 1st ed. Thessaloniki 1517.

Fol. 462: נאום יצחק בר אליהו מאנוש שלי"ו [שיחיה לאורך ימים ושנים] מק"ק [קהילת קודש] לויטמריץ ממדינת פיהם תחת ממשלת ורדיננוס יר"ה [ירום הודו] תם ונשלם ביום ג’ ג’ בו בר"ח [בראש חודש] תמוז שנת ש"י לפ"ק (Says Itzhak bar Elijahu Manosh, long may he live, of the holy community of Leitmeritz in Bohemia under the rule of Ferdinand [I] his high majesty; completed Tuesday, New Moon of Tammuz 5310 [15.06.1550]).

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Watermarks: 'A' (27 mm; e.g. fols. 33, 132, 133, 210) or 'B' (24 mm; e.g. fols. 35, 56) in the outer corner of the folio; counter mark: 'B' between the points of two crossed arrows forming an X at the centre of the folio (66 mm; e.g. fols. 1, 191, 462, 462a): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Flèche 35 and 41 (1550, 1547).

Dark green leather turned brown on wooden boards (360 x237 mm); gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front and a shield on the back cover within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. The front roundel is inscribed משלי/ פירושים; below are the letters LLL. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has four hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the front cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two groups on the side edge and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the back cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring which was intended to hook over the nails on the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.

 

This binding was executed for Fugger by the 'Fugger Binder' inVenice(Hobson 1999:119-129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 30, 34, 41, 53 and Cod.gr. 12.

 

Watermarks on flyleaves: A star above an anchor within a circle at the centre of the folio (65 mm; front and back flyleaves): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Ancre 24-31 (Venice, 1556).

Librarians' inscriptions: The numbering of texts by Fugger’s librarians does not always correspond to the actual number of texts in the manuscript, however in this case it does. N0 1: fols. 1-191; N0 2: fols. 192-262v; N0 3: fols. 263-462. Front flyleaf, verso: Contents in Hebrew in brown ink by Librarian 1a: פירוש משלי עם הביאור/ הארוך היפה גם על ספר/ איוב מרבינו עמנו אל/ עם פי' ר' מאיר מארמעה/ פירוש שיר השירים/ מרבי עמנואל בן שלמה. Transcription written by Librarian 6 in similar ink on the left of the Hebrew inscription: Peirusch misli im habiur\ haaruch haiaphah gam al sephaer\ Iiob merabenu Imanu el. Underneath by Librarian 3: Rabi Emanuelis filij Jacob commentaria\ super proverb Salomonis\ Item Emanuelis filij Salomonis\ in Cantica Canticorum.\ Item Rabi Meir de Armaa comentaria\ in Job. Inside front wooden board, on the exlibris in plummet: Contents of the manuscript in German. Exlibris and stamps: Inside front wooden board: an exlibris of the Bavarian Court and State Library (227 x 155 mm) with the arms of Elector Maximilian I of 1638 (Dressler 1972:B3ab), stuck over his earlier exlibris (175 x 135 mm) of 1618, before he became Elector in 1623 (Dressler 1972:A3a-f). On the first flyleaf of the front cover recto, and fol. 462v there is a 20th-century oval stamp of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: BIBLIOTHECA\ REGIA\ MONACENSIS. Old signatures: Front cover, right lower part in black ink: I. n. 62. (Duke's library, Prommer's signature). Back cover, middle of upper part in black ink: St. 8 n0. 16 (signature of Fugger's library). Front flyleaf, right upper corner: MS. Hebr. 21. Spine, in black and brown ink on stickers: 6? and Cod.hebr. 25 (current signature). Back pastedown, in black ink on sticker: Cod.hebr. 25 (current signature).