Florence, Laurenz. MS. Plut.1.14

Biblioteca Laurenziana (Florence, Italy)

Codex

Parchment

Black (carbon based)

Calamus

There is ruling

15

15

100

70

14th Century CE

Hebrew

Bible

No vowels or accents

The manuscript comes from the private collection of the Medici family.

The present manuscript was seen and described by Mabillon as follows (Museum Italicum [citation No. 190], I, 167): "Unus codex ex corio antiquissimus […], continens librum Hester, hebraice sine punctis scriptum, absque scriptura in adversa foliorum parte (One codex made of very ancient leather [...], containing the book of Esther, written in Hebrew without points, without writing on the reverse side of the leaves); originally, it had the form of a scroll and was later cut and transformed into a codex, as explained in the following note added on December 4, 1893, by Enrico Rostagno on a flyleaf: 'without dispute, this is not a leather codex! This is clearly made from one of the usual and common scrolls used in synagogues: it was cut into many pieces, which were then properly bound and sewn into a book, undoubtedly to make people believe, whoever could believe it, that it was a leather codex, that is, a rarity!'". Enrico Rostagno (1860-1942) was a librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Biblioteca Laurenziana from 1890, later becoming its director from 1923 to 1933; see T. Lodi, Enrico Rostagno, "Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia," 16 (1942), 1-10; P. S. Leicht, Enrico Rostagno, "Rendiconti della reale Accademia d'Italia. Classe di scienze morali e storiche," s. VII, 4 (1942), 91-96; R. Pintaudi (ed.), Gli archivi della memoria. Bibliotecari, filologi e papirologi nei carteggi della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence 1996, 49-51.

990001480250205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990001480250205171&scope=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS (Date accessed: 2025-03-10)

https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/195250/rec/10 (Date accessed: 2025-03-10)

Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae catalogus ab Antonio Maria Biscionio ... digestus atque editus, p. 12;

D. Baldi, Il Codex Florentinus del Digesto e il" Fondo Pandette" della Biblioteca Laurenziana (con un'appendice di documenti inediti), in "Segno e testo", 8 (2010), pp. 99-186.