Manuscritos medievales
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Country
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ES
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Name of institution (English)
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Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Library
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Language of name of institution
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spa
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Contact information: postal address
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Calle Serrano 122, 28006 Madrid
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Contact information: phone number
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0034 915616084
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Contact information: email
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biblioteca@museolazarogaldiano.es
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Reference number
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Mss.
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Medieval manuscripts
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Title (official language of the state)
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Manuscritos medievales
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Language of title
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spa
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Creator / accumulator
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Fundación Lázaro Galdiano
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Date note
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12th century/16th century
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Language(s)
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heb
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spa
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Extent
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62 manuscripts
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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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.
A digital copy is available on:
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Mss. I15646
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Administrative / Biographical history
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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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(source: Museo Lázaro Galdiano website)
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Access points: locations
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Spain
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System of arrangement
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The manuscripts are arranged by authorship, title, date and main topics.
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Author of the description
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Rui Queirós de Faria, 2021
