Nora Tehillot, Joel Ibn Shuaib, [16th century]

The present manuscript contains Ibn Shuaib’s commentary on Psalms 8 through 37 (it is incomplete). Ibn Shuaib was an important fifteenth-century rabbi in Spain and his classic commentary to the Psalms was first printed in Salonica in 1569.

Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 210; Halberstam identifies the author as Joel ibn Shuaib in a note at the top of fol. 1r)

Physical Description

192 leaves on paper, 8 ¼ x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm, collation: 1-248, 25 lines, written in black ink in Sefardi cursive script, catchwords, modern foliation in pencil; some dampstaining, fol. 1 repaired, fols. 1, 81, 182-192 with reinforced margins, some scribbling on fol. 157v. Library buckram.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 37)