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Arundel Or 51
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- Arundel Or 51
- Title:
- Maḥberet Menaḥem by Menaḥem ben Saruq with additional commentaries
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 207 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_Or_51 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1189
- End Date:
- 1189
- Date Range:
- 1189
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Arundel Or 51
Maḥberet Menaḥem by Menaḥem ben Saruq with additional commentaries
Contents
A dictionary, with additional commentaries.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-160vTitle: Maḥberet MenaḥemTitle: מחברת מנחםSee the printed edition of Filipowski, London 1854.
The arrangement of the roots is that originally adopted by the author (first biliteral roots, then triliteral, etc.). Some articles are wanting.
ff. 161r-163vTitle: Igeret Sherira Ga᾿onTitle: אגרת שרירא גאוןIn a short recension.
ff. 163v-166vTitle: Seder tana᾿im ṿe-amora᾿imTitle: סדר תנאים ואמוראים (קטעים)See further the edition of Kalman Kahana, Seder tana᾿im ṿe-amora᾿im, Frankfurt 1935.
ff. 167v-207vTitle: Teshuvot Dunash ben Labraṭ ῾al Maḥberet MenaḥemTitle: תשובות דונש על מחברת מנחםColophon: אני יצחק בר מנחם כתבתי זה המחברת לר' משה ב"ר יוסף [...] בשנת ארבעת אלפים ותשע מאות וארבעים ותשעה לבריאת עולם f. 169rSee the printed edition, Sefer Teshuvot Dunash ben Labraṭ, Edinburgh 1855.
The treatise begins with the poem, after which follows the colophon. Folio 169v was left blank by the original scribe, and folio 170r begins with rhymed verses. Folio 169v contains currently some medical prescriptions (in semi-cursive script later than the bulk of the manuscript).
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 12th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 207 foliosDimensions (leaf): 253 × 169 mm.Dimensions (written): 175 × 112 mm.Foliation:207 folios (+
Collation
26 quires of mostly 8 leaves each, mostly marked by catchwords at the end.
Condition
Defective at the end.
Lacuna after folio 160.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 24
Written lines: 24
Uniform layout.
Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.
Visible ruling by hard point, bifolium by bifolium on hair side; ruling by plummet on other side of hard point.
Visible quire by quire pricking, double for major lines, in outer margins only.
Graphic filler at the end of line.
Occasional infra-linear vocalization.
Last written line within ruling.
Initial words, headings and parts of text in larger square characters.
Marginal notes.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi (French) square script of the 12th century. Scribe: Isaac ben Menaḥem.
ff. 161-166, written in Oriental semi-cursive script.Binding
BM in-house.
Spine title: 'Menachem ben Saruk. Machbereth. Hebrew. Arund. Or. 51.'
History
Origin: 1189 France or GermanyProvenance and Acquisition
Yedidyah bar Mosheh: inscribed, folio 2r.
Folio 2r: a stamp of "Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henry Howard Norfolciensis" (Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, having been the original owner of the Arundel Collection).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_Or_51 (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. 951.Codices Hebraicis litteris exarati quo tempore scripti fuerint exhibentes = Otsar ha-mitsḥafim ha-ʿivriyim : kitve-yad bi- khetav ʿivri mi-yeme ha-benayim be-tsiyune taʾarikh. Tome IV, De 1144 à 1200, eds. C. Sirat, M. Beit-Arie, M. Glatzer et al. vol. IV. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 76-81.Funding of Cataloguing
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