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Add MS 15454

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Add MS 15454
Title:
Mikhtav Eliyahu by Elijah ben David Alfaji
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
114 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Alfaji, Elijah ben David
Ya῾aḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ Roman
אלפגי, אליהו בן דוד
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Add MS 15454

Mikhtav Eliyahu by Elijah ben David Alfaji

Contents

Astronomical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-114v
Author: Alfaji, Elijah ben David אלפגי, אליהו בן דוד
Title: Mikhtav Eliyahu
Title: מכתב אליהו

Each of the three parts of the work is divided into two sections. Part I begins on folio 3v (preceded by an introduction), part II on folio 31v, and part III on folio 81r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 114 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

114 folios (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Damp and water-soluble ink.

Grey tidemarks at foot. Fine carbon dust sometimes spread across the page.

Some usage stains, including wax drips.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Hard-point ruling visible.

Initials in larger characters.

Folio to folio catchwords.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Folio 144v and folio 115 (a small slip of paper fixed at the end): some notes on the subject treated in the manuscript. Oriental cursive script of approximately 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mikhtabh Eliyyahu. Astronomical Treatise. Hebrew. Elijah ben David Al-Faji. Brit. Mus. Additional 15,454.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ Roman: inscribed, 1623 (folio 1r).

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 March 1845: inscribed, front flyleaf (vi)v.

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_15454 (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. 1017.

Funding of Cataloguing

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