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Add MS 27174
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
123 folios (i+123+vi)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1707
Date Range:
1400-1707
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Luigi da Bologna
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Zeraḥyah ha-Yevani
זרחיה, היווני
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Add MS 27174

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-123v
Title: A collection of miscellaneous text

f. 106v Unfinished ornamental border, in black and mauve ink.

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of 15th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 123 folios (i+123+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

123 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 6 paper flyleaves at the end).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Aggadoth Hat-Talmud. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,174.'

History

Origin: 15th century -1707

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1612 (?) (folio 123r).

Luigi [da Bologna]: inscribed with his name: 1600 (folio 123v); a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the 16th-beginning of 17th century), see [Popper_1969] 104.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 284; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-29v
Title: Agadot ha-Talmud
Title: אגדות התלמוד

Includes parts of Berakhot, Shabat and ῾Eruvin.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 29 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 152 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-29

Collation

Mostly 10 leaves per quire.

Leaves missing at the end and after folios 13, 25, 27.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Slightly stained.

Upper part of the pages cut away.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Many additions given in the margins.

Catchwords on every verso, accompanied by three vertical marks.

Initial words of each section given in larger characters.

Running titles, partially cut away.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Folio 1 is a later flyleaf, containing on the recto an enumeration of the works contained in the manuscript.

History

Origin: 16th century

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 30r-64v
Author: Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306 המאירי, מנחם בן שלמה
Title: חבור התשובה
Title: Ḥibur ha-teshuvah

Contains only the second part of Ḥibur ha-teshuvah, called Shever gaon, consisting of two ma'amarim, of 7 and 12 chapters respectively.

Filiation: See Add MS 19779, George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 872., for the first part of this work.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 35 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 30-64

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso, decorated with simple pen and ink design.

Initial words of each chapter given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 15th century

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 65v-106v
Author: Zeraḥyah ha-Yevani זרחיה, היווני
Title: Sefer ha-yashar
Title: ספר הישר
Colophon: ונשלם תס"ז שבח לאל עולם f. 106v

References

[Sefer-Yashar_1860]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 42 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 65-106

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Fading ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Initial words of each section given in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso, partially cut away.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the beginning of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 1707

IV

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 107r-110r
Title: Ḥibur ha-diḳduḳ
Title: חבור הדקדוק

A short grammatical section consisting of paradigms.

Folio 110v contains a magical prescription for turning human beings into animals.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 107-110

Collation

A part of a single quire.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Fading ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Initial words of each section given in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso, partially cut away.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scrip of the beginning of the 18th century. The same hand as in the 3rd part of this manuscript.

History

Origin: 1707

V

Contents

ff. 111r-123v
Title: Derushim li-nesu᾿in
Title: דרושים לנשואין

A series of short anonymous homilies, the end of each generally refers directly to marriage.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 13 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 111-123

Collation

Fragments of two quires.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Regular uniform layout.

The initial word of each section is given in lerger characters.

Some ommisions are provided in the margins.

The upper margin slightly cut off.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of approximately 16th to 17th century.

History

Origin: 16th-17th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27174 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 873.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).
    [Sefer-Yashar_1860] Isaac Kauffmann, Jacob ben Meir Tam approximately, and ha-Yeṿani Zeraḥyah. 'Sefer Ha-Yashar : Kolel ʿinyene Musar Ṿe-Yirʾat H. / Ḥibro Zeraḥyah Ha-Yeṿani ; Nidpas Me-Ḥadash ʿim Hagahah Meduyeḳet Ṿe-Targum Ashkenazit ʿal Yede Ayzaḳ Ḳoyfman.'מהדורא תנינא..; Mahad. 2.. Frankfurt am Main, 1860.

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