Zeitschrift für hebraeische Bibliographie · 1905-11-01 · 6 (November-Dezember 1905) · p. Seite 178

178 שי״ילי in the city of Almeida (Portugal) in the year 644 (4644 of the Creation?) I hesitato to say that is the year 884 C. E., which seems to me too early. It was prepared for a certain B. Joseph. II. A copy-of the Pentateuch; parchment; 42X83 cm.; two columns to the page; the letters are one cm. in height; very full Massora. Corrections have been made by a later band. Colophon: זה קרבן יהודה ובניו בכור אברהם ן* גאטיניו דל אשר יקריבו לייי לכפרת נםש היקרה סרת רחל די סםורנוה סנוחתה בנן עק ביום שבת הנמל שנת.. lt is a pity that no. date is attached to this fine and noble Codex. ' It was a gift made by Judah ben Abraham Ibn Gatinho in memory of their wife and mother '(?) Bachei di Sasportas (?), to one of Boman Synagogues. The names point to the Portugese origin of the donors. The parchment has been cut by the binder. III. A copy of the whole Bible; parchment; 30X221/* cm.; two columns to the page; full Massora, often artistically arranged around the margin. The titles bare been inserted 07er the text by a later hand. A beautiful Ms. and well-preser7ed. The Hagiographa are in the following Order: Buth, Psalms, Job, Proyerbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, arid Chronicles. Upon the back of the first page is written: קדש לייי ק״ק פנםת ההיכל יציו. בגזירת נ׳ח׳ש׳*) לנונב לסוכר לקונה . This is followed by a second inscfiption: היום יום א״ י*מ חודש שבט סכייט לפרט קטן . . . כה פריבארו סיס לחשבונן אנחנו סשה בכטיר טנשה עטם קיק כנסת ההיכל ואני הצעיר ברוך בכסיר טרדכי של[0ה?] מ... ק.,." וזבד קיק הנ״ל קנינו זה הספר סיד אלישע בכס״ר שבתי סשאראשכה זיל בשכר חסשה.סרדכי בכסר יוסף From which not much is learned: the Ms. was bought by Moses ben Menasseh and Baruch ben Mordecai from one Eiishah ben Shabbathai (?) on the 19th of Shebat (= 25 Eebruary) in a year which I cannot determine, and giyen, to the ״Tem'ple Synagogue“ in Borne. . IV. A copy of the Pentateuch; parchment; 351/« X 27 */,. cm.; 2 columns to the page; full Massora; in some places arranged in an artistic manner. Before the text are two leayes containing the different readings of Ben Asher and Ben Naphtali. At the end are four further leaves on the same differences, but arranged in the form of Candelabra and holy vessels. The colophon reads: *) i. e. גד1י חרם ושמתא.