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Add MS 4710

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032-003312218
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Add MS 4710
Title:
The Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts and printed books (presented by Solomon da Costa to the BM)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
17 folios
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1759
End Date:
1759
Date Range:
1759
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Da Costa, Solomon, 1690-1769,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51423844
Da Costa, Solomon, 1690-1769,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51423844
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 4710

The Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts and printed books (presented by Solomon da Costa to the BM)

Contents

A catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin, English

ff. 1r-17v
Title: Reshimat kitve yad ῾ivriyim u-defusim
Title: רשימת כתבי יד עבריים ודפוסים

The Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts and printed books which were presented by Solomon da Costa to the British Museum in 1759.

Folio 1r and 2r contain a dedicatory epistle, dated 1759, and signed by da Costa.

The list of works in Hebrew, Latin and English is given on folios 2v-17v.

Author: Da Costa, Solomon, 1690-1769 קושטה, שלמה די

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 17 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 300 × 185 mm.
Foliation:

17 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves. Bound together with Add MS 4711.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 30

Written lines: 20 30

Uniform layout.

Sections marked in the margins.

Pencil ruling visible.

Text written out only on rectos.

Hand(s)

Latin and Hebrew cursive and square scripts of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Lists of Hebrew Books. Brit. Mus. Additional Mss. 4710. 4711.'

History

Origin: 1759 England (London)

Provenance and Acquisition

1759

Presented to the British Museum by Solomon da Costa in 1759.

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4710 (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. 1053.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL