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Add 6946

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Add 6946
Title:
Seder ha-῾olam be-Tana"kh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Add 6946

Seder ha-῾olam be-Tana"kh

Contents

Biblical genealogy.

Language(s): Latin, Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-118v
Title: Seder ha-῾olam be-Tana"kh
Title: סדר העולם בתנ"ך

A volume of notes on early biblical genealogy and its connection with the nations and races of the inhabited worlds. The notes on folio 1-89 are based on Arabic sources, and only folios 90-118 deal with Hebrew writings.

The latter part of the manuscript begins with a Latin rendering (accompanied by the Chaldee text in parentheses) of 1Chronicles 1, taken "ex paraphrasi Chaldaica in Lib. 1 Chronicorum. Wilkens [for Wilkins] Amst. 1715, 4." Some extracts from Abraham Zacuto's Sefer yuḥasin (folio 98r) and from Yosipon (folio 110r) follow.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 118 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225/230 × 170/190 mm.
Foliation:

118 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Foliated left to right.

Collation

Irregular.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 1 25

Written lines: 1 25

Non-uniform layout.

Irregular number of line to a page.

Frequent erasures and highlights by the scribe.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Notices of Patriarchs, Prophets, Etc. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 6946.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Uncertain

Provenance and Acquisition

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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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. 1054.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL