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Manuscript/Mixed Material Aramaic Targum of the Five Scrolls and the Book of Job

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Title

  • Aramaic Targum of the Five Scrolls and the Book of Job

Created / Published

  • 1512.

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Executed in: Governolo.
  • -  Italian semi-cursive script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  [תרגום חמש מגילות וספר איוב] Aramaic Targum of the Five Scrolls and the Book of Job. Includes Targum to Canticles (ff. 1r-6r), Ecclesiastes (ff. 6r-11r), Lamentations (ff. 11r-13v, 15r), Ruth 2:13-3:20 (f. 14r-v), Targum Sheni of Esther (ff. 15r-29v) followed by תפלת מרדכי ואסתר the Prayer of Mordecai and Esther in Aramaic (ff. 29v-30v) and Job (ff. 31r-41v).
  • -  Copied by Menahem b. Peretz Trabot in Governolo in 1512. The colophon at the end of Esther on f. 30v gives the date 25 Sivan 5272=1512 אנא מנחם ספרא כל קבל דאשכחנא לישני דלא מתקנן ושפירן בעיני בהני חמש מגלתא... וכמא דסיעני לאשלמא ספרא הדין בעשרין וחמשה לירחא דמיהב אורייתא שנת חמשת אלפין ומאתין ושבעין ותרין למברי עלמא בגובירנו מתא.... The colophon at the end of Job gives the date 10 Tammuz 5272 אנא... מנחם בר רבנא פרץ... טרבוט ממדינת צרפת אשלימית האי ספרא... בעשיראה לירחא רביע במאתן ושבעין ותרין לבריאת עלמא. Accession mark: 266992/20. Formerly MS Hebr. 5. MMW.

Medium

  • 41 ff. Paper. ; 21.7 x 15.3 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 158
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/109
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 851/3

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757776

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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