❧ Description
A rabbinic manuscript of 150 folios containing the Azharot of Shelomo ibn Gabirol (Zaragoza, c. 1021-c. 1058) — a poetic collection of the 613 commandments for Shavuot — with the commentary Zohar ha-Raqia by the Rashbatz, Shim’on b. Tsemaḥ Duran (1361 – Algiers 1444), chief rabbi of the academy of Algiers after the persecution of 1391. Zohar ha-Raqia would be printed in Constantinople in 1515: this Algiers copy of 1417 predates the editio princeps by a century. Folio 144: colophon dated “2 Sivan 5177 = 1417.”
Provenance: 1 Copied in Algiers, completed in 1417 (fol. 144), during the Rashbatz's lifetime 2 Owner: Aharon ha-Levi (fol. 1) 3 Heimann Joseph Michael collection (1792-1846), Hamburg 4 Bodleian Library, 1848
Codicological notice — origin Algiers, Regency of Algiers, Algeria; script: Oriental; leaves: 150 folios; dimensions: octavo; old catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1177; editorial status: Partial edition available.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mich-344; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
