Manuscritos medievales
Item
Country
ES
Name of institution (English)
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Library
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
spa
Contact information: postal address
Calle Serrano 122, 28006 Madrid
Contact information: phone number
0034 915616084
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
biblioteca@museolazarogaldiano.es
Reference number
Mss.
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Medieval manuscripts
Title (official language of the state)
Manuscritos medievales
Language of title
spa
Creator / accumulator
Fundación Lázaro Galdiano
Date note
12th century/16th century
Language(s)
heb
spa
Extent
62 manuscripts
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
The Medieval Manuscripts collection held at the Biblioteca Lázaro Galdiano comprises codices and manuscripts of diverse provenances. The largest group is composed of liturgical and prayer books, including some valuable illuminated manuscripts.
One of the highlights of this collection is a Hebrew manuscript with a partial commentary of the Bible (Pentateuch, Prophets) and Rashi's Hagiography. Another fragment of this Bible is part of the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville. The Lázaro Galdiano Library’s copy (Mss. I15646) is a 13th-century Hebrew manuscript written on parchment (31 folios). The text is written in two columns, and each column has 47 lines of text. It is profusely illuminated with flower and geometric motifs. Some folios have marginalia, also written in Hebrew. The first folio provides the identity of the author of the Commentary and refers that the codex was acquired by the archdeacon of Jerez, who, according to F. Cantera, was Don Juan de Góngora.
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One of the highlights of this collection is a Hebrew manuscript with a partial commentary of the Bible (Pentateuch, Prophets) and Rashi's Hagiography. Another fragment of this Bible is part of the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville. The Lázaro Galdiano Library’s copy (Mss. I15646) is a 13th-century Hebrew manuscript written on parchment (31 folios). The text is written in two columns, and each column has 47 lines of text. It is profusely illuminated with flower and geometric motifs. Some folios have marginalia, also written in Hebrew. The first folio provides the identity of the author of the Commentary and refers that the codex was acquired by the archdeacon of Jerez, who, according to F. Cantera, was Don Juan de Góngora.
A digital copy is available on:
Administrative / Biographical history
The Library of the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation was founded in 1948, a year after the death of José Lázaro Galdiano (1862–1947), a renowned Spanish financer, editor, and art collector. The library holds Galdiano’s impressive collection of incunabula and other medieval manuscripts, as well as many printed books, periodicals, prints, and drawings, estimated in more than 20,000 units. José Lázaro created a private library at his home in Parque Florido, Madrid, in the last decades of the 19th century. This library achieved fame in the first half of the 20th century among booksellers, bibliophiles, bibliographers, and academic researchers.
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System of arrangement
The manuscripts are arranged by authorship, title, date and main topics.
Access, restrictions
The collection is available online on:
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Rui Queirós de Faria, 2021
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