General description:
Tanakh: Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos (copied an anonymous scribe); Prophets and Writings (copied by Hayim ben Isaac)
Volume / fragment / virtual manuscript:
volume
Main source of the notice:
Catalogue, images on-line, Sfardata
Institution:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vatican City - Vatican
Alias name:
La Rochelle Bible (Vat. 482), Bible of Hayim ben Isaac
Language:
Hebrew, Aramaic
Geographical area (estimated geographical provenance):
Ashkenazic area
Subregion estimated:
Franco-Ashkenazic area
History of the manuscrit in collection:
For the details on the migrations from La Rochelle to Italy, via Spain and Avignon, see Richler 2008, p. 418 (here summarized):
- the codex may have quit la Rochelle after 1291 due to an expulsion.
- f. 558r, the codex is in Tudela (Navarra) at the end of the 14th century (cf. list of 30 books in ladino of probably Ezmel Azemel).
- Stay in the Azemel family (f. 557r)
- 555v: the codex is sold to Benedig de Noves in Avignon for 12 מגינים, in 1494.
- 1r: Moses Caslari (משה דקאשלר)
- 1r: sold to Joseph de Noves (for 60 מגינים)
- Sold by Isaac Treves (the Jewish censor?) to Giovanni Battista Eliano - convert and grandson of Elijah Levita) in 1580.
- The manuscript has been hold by the Maronites (via Eliano) in Rome (cf. latin note f. 555r and v).
- Arrival at the BAV in 1812.