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Add MS 7701

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Add MS 7701
Title:
Collection of Judeo-Persian works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
134 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_7701 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Judeo-Persian
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1666
End Date:
1666
Date Range:
1666
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Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham Shelomoh Yitsḥaḳ
Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000044312322,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56368539
Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000044312322,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56368539
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
Yehudah ben Ele῾azar
עלי קושי
῾Al Ḳushi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 7701

Collection of Judeo-Persian works

Contents

A fragment of an Arabic-Persian versified vocabulary, with a commentary. Incomplete.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-37v
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān
Title: נצאב אלצביאן
Author: Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn אבו נצר, פראהי
ff. 38r-81v
Title: Rasalah dar hiyat
Title: רסאלה דר היאת
Author: ῾Al Ḳushi עלי קושי

A treatise on astrononmy, with a commentary. The first part begins on folio 41v, the second on folio 64r.

Filiation: Cf. Add MS 23440.
ff. 82r-134v
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 נאצר אלדין טוסי
Title: Mikhtatsar
Title: מכתצר

A manual on the computation of the almanack, with an anonymous commentary. Incomplete.

Filiation: Cf. Add MS 7700.
Colophon: קד תם עלא יד יהודא בן כמה"ר אלעזר בתאריך הפתם מאה טבת סנה' התכו מואפק [...] אז הגרת אמיד כה מבארך באד בר כאתב וברקארי אויר. f. 134v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 134 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 25

Written lines: 20 25

Uniform layout.

Sections marked in the margins.

Ruled with mastara.

Catchwords from folio to folio.

Larger initial words.

Diagrams, partly in red, e.g. folio 43r, 50v, 56v, 61v-63r.

Some parts of the text underlined in black ink.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive scripts of the 17th century. Copied by Yehudah ben Ele῾azar: inscribed, folio 134v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Works of Astronomy. Etc. Persian & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 7701.'

History

Origin: 1666 Persia (Iran)

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham Shelomoh Yitsḥaḳ: inscribed, folio 134v.

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_7701 (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. 1055.

Funding of Cataloguing

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