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Or 3661

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032-003312276
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Or 3661
Title:
Collection of biblical commentaries (on Esther and Proverbs)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
172 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_3661 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Joseph Schlesinger
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 3661

Collection of biblical commentaries (on Esther and Proverbs)

Contents

Commentaries on the book of Ester and Proverbs.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-2v
Title: Yosipon
Title: יוסיפון

A short fragment on the story of Esther only.

Incipit: כתוב בספר יוסף בן גוריון הכהן ז"ל. f. 1r
ff. 3r-10v
Title: Perush Ester
Title: פרוש אסתר

Begins with chapter 5:13 of Esther and continues to the end of the book. The commentary is anonymous, but mentions Abraham ibn Ezra.

ff. 11r-172v
Title: Perush Ketuvim le-Me᾿iri (Mishle)
Title: פרוש כתובים למאירי (משלי)
Author: Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon מאירי, מנחם בן שלמה

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 172 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

172 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Initial words and chapter titles in larger square characters.

Folio by folio catchwords.

Marginal additions and notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

ff. 1r-10v
due to a different but contemporary hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Menahem Me'iri. Commentary on Proverbs. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 3661.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1889-03-02

Joseph Schlesinger: purchased from him by the British Museum on 02 March 1889: inscribed, folio [173v].

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=Or_3661 (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. 154., vol. IV.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL