Due bifogli di manoscritti ebraici medievali riusati come legature nella Biblioteca dell'eremo di Camaldoli

In this study, the author presents two new fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts, which he found at the Hermitage of Camaldoli Library, in the Apennines of central Italy, at one thousand meters above sea level. The fragments are two whole bifolios, well preserved, which were dismembered from two different manuscripts in order to reuse them as bookbinding, in 1575 and 1590, respectively. The first one is an Italian codex copied in semi-cursive writing, datable to the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and it contains Rashi’s Commentary to Numbers 21,14-26 and 27,7-20, with the Commentary of Nachmanides to the same book in the margin. The second bifolio has been dismembered from an Ashkenazi manuscript copied in Gothic semi-cursive Hebrew writing in the fourteenth century and contains the Commentary of Rashi to Ezekiel 1,8-2,2 and 18,14-20,26. Both the two bifolios’ text present several reading variants if compared to the standard printed text.