[Commentary on the Megilot (partial): Song of Solomon 7:4-7; Summary of Ruth] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344.

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Standardized Title:

Perush ʹal Ḥamesh megilot. Selections

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Song of Solomon VII, 4-7--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible. Ruth--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible. Ruth.

Bible.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

2 fols. : non-consecutive, complete

Paper 26.6 X 19.3 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 29.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Perush ʹal Ḥamesh megilot (partial): Shir ha-shirim 7:4-7; Mavo le-Megilat Rut

Place of Publication:

[Italy?], [publisher not identified], [14th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Biblical verses in enlarged characters; vocalization and cantillation in later hand.

Fol. 1 contains the commentary on Song of Solomon VII 4 to the end of 7; fol. 2 is from the introduction to Ruth, presented, as is customary in Gersonides, in numbered Toʻalot (purposes).

The folio contains Toʻelet 9-16, which is the end of the essay (in the published edition, Koenigsburg, p. 24). The author signs at the end that he completed the essay on Rosh Ḥodesh of Nissan 89 (=1329) as in ms. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense 3094.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

14 folios from the same ms., including parts of Song of Solomon I-II; Ecclesiastes IX-XI and the summary of Esther, are in Petersburg RNL Evr. II A 235.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 61

IMHM, no. F38399

Publications about:

Perush ʹal ḥamesh megilot / [Leṿi ben Gershom]. Ḳonigsberg : Gruber et Langriʾen, 1860.

OCLC:

249589366