Moses ibn Haviv

Description

Moses ibn Haviv was the owner of the Hebrew Bible known as Kennicott 2 in the Bodleian Library. He resided in Soria and bought the copy in that city in 1306 from Joshua ibn Abraham ibn Gaon (Silvestri, 2013; Diago, 2018).

Bibliography

• DIAGO HERNANDO, Máximo (2018): "Financieros y mercaderes judíos en Soria y su entorno en los siglos XIV y XV", nº 38, Arevacon.
• KENNICOTT, Benjamin (1753): The state of the printed Hebrew text of the Old Testament considered. A dissertation in two parts. Part the first compares I Chron. XI with 2 Sam. V and XXIII; and part the second contains observations on seventy Hebrew mss. with an extract of mistakes, Oxford.
• ORTEGA-MONASTERIO, Teresa (2017): "Some Hebrew Bibles in the Bodleian Library: the Kennicott Collection", nº 62, Journal of Semitic Studies.
• ORTEGA-MONASTERIO, Teresa (2016): "Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection", nº 5, Babelao.
• SILVESTRI, Stefania (2013): Le Bibbie ebraiche della penisola iberica : committenza, produzione e diffusione tra i secoli 13. e 16, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venecia.