❧ Description
Diwan of Yehuda Halevi described in the Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 (no. 54) as a manuscript of 244 folios on charta bombycina, containing 613 poems of the 816 attributed to the poet — one of the three principal witnesses of Halevi's Diwan. This manuscript served as the basis for the Brody edition (Berlin, 1894-1930). Location established (June 2026): cross-referencing with the OCR of the Neubauer 1886 catalogue identifies this manuscript with entry no. 1971, current shelfmark MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 81 (244 ff., exact concordance of folio count). An index of cited names, in Luzzatto's hand, appears on the first page.
Provenance: 1 Acquisition by Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua 2 Sale by Isaia Luzzatto, 1869 3 Bodleian Library (Oppenheim Additional), 1869-1870
Codicological note — origin to be specified; script: Sephardic; leaves: 244 folios; dimensions: paper (charta bombycina); early catalogues: Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 · no. 54; Neubauer 1886 · 1971; editorial status: Critical edition available.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/to-locate-luzzatto-54.
