Zeitschrift für hebraeische Bibliographie · 1905-11-01 · 6 (November-Dezember 1905) · p. Seite 177

-173— ׳ ־■־•Hi ABTEILUNG; * . '! •5 ׳. '־ •' ־ i .'n\ ■■ * /V ' *V > - , Bible Mss. in the: Roman Synagogues. - * ׳. bj Richard Gottheil (New York). x \ ״ ־■- The eustomof preserving model-Codices ■of the Bible ■as» part of the Synagogues treasures is now known to have been widebspreäd in Mediterranean countries and in the East. I haye elsewhere giyen an account of those to be found in Cairo, Alexandria and Jerusalem.1) Similar ones in European Turkey, in Aleppo, Damascus, Samareand etc. have been hurriedly mentioned by Mr. Elkän; Adler.2 * 4 *) The Sicilian and Catalan Synagogues in Rome formerly possessed ä nümber of such treasurehj some of which, in course of time, have suffered from want and neglect. They are now kept in tin eäseS in the Garderobe of the new Temple, plentifully־ supplied with camphor to keep away curious büt unwelcpme visitors, .Düring the naonth of May 1905 I was able to spend a few hours of a secojad yisit to Rome in an examination of .these Mss.8); in conjunetion with Dr. Samuel Erauss of Budapest: from which examination the foltowing short catalogue has resulted. There are, in all, fourteeu Mss.; although thie tin cases are numbered, my own numbering.is in agreement whit thiat of the authorities only in se?en cases (IT, III, 1V, V, VI1J, IX, X), for the reason that some of tbe cases contain more than one Ms. or' fragment of a Ms. I. A portion of the Prophets, commencing whit Isaiah XLI and running to the end of Malachi; parchment; 33l/»X26i/a cm., 2 columnes to the page; 20 lines to the column. .All that can be made out of the eolophon is the following: - . אני מנוח בר מאיר. ל.סופר .המכונה: שייל״י חנ[צכ*ה בחכתי זד.] ־ חצי קריאה*) ...* . חדש-אייר שבשנת תרמ*ד עד יום שלישי. ב*ת . .... אב שבשנת ו/רמ״ד . . . . באלמידה לתלמיד הנאה ..למראה ר׳ יוסף' ב״וי .; .־. השם יחיהו וישמר . . . . אותו ואת בניו וכד. i. e. This half of the Bible — originally containing' the Prophets and the Hagiographa, or the Pentateuch, Historieal bdoks and Prophets, — was written by •one Manoah son of Meir. called ») J. Q. R. July 1905. 2) Jews in Uany Lands, Publication Society, Philadelphia,!905, The custom does not seem to have prevailed in Aschkenazic commimities. ־־ *) For a general desctiption of Roman Jewry as I found it, I toay be forward ,enough to refer to an article that I have contribüted to the N.e w Era lllustrated Magazine, New York, 1905. 4) The expression קריאה for the Bible is not common in the Mss.; butsee Codex Yatic. XI (Catalogue p. 13) כתבתי הקריאה הזאת. 12