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Arundel Or 50

Record Id:
032-003313082
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Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 50
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
85 folios.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_Or_50 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1400-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Yosef ben Gershon
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Arundel Or 50

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of fragments from diverse sources.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

A collection of fragments of 15th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and paper.
Extent: 85 folios.

Condition

Damp and mould damages, repaired and infilled before rebinding.

Tears at edges.

Usage stains.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold-tooled 'Biblioteca Arundeliana' on the front upper cover.

Spine: 'Orientalia. Varia. Mus. Brit. Bibl. Arundel. Cod. Orient. 50. Plut. CXVII. E.'

History

Origin: 15th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1831

Purchased by the British Museum from theRoyal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-6v
Title: Seliḥot
Title: סליחות

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 7 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 127 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-6

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Hard-point ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Germany

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin

ff. 17v-28r
Title: Diḳduḳ ῾ivri
Title: דקדוק עברי

Beginning of a Hebrew Grammar in Latin, but written in Hebrew characters, with a faulty translation of the Lord's Prayer and the Christian confession of faith on folios 26r-25r.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 17-28

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 19

Written lines: 18 19

Ink ruling.

Square larger initial words.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive script (a Christian hand) of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century ; Italy?

Provenance

/

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin

ff. 39v-45v
Title: ῾Inyane diḳduḳ
Title: עניני דקדוק

A short treatise on the pronunciation of Hebrew, with specimens (including the rendering of the Lord's Prayer), accompanied by interlinear Latin Transcription and translations.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 7 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 39-45.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Partly written in red ink.

Ink ruling.

Hand(s)

Hebrew and Latin script of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century ; Italy?

Provenance

IV

Contents

ff. 46r-49v
Title: Ḳeta῾im bi-refu᾿ah
Title: קטעים ברפואה

Two fragments of medical treatise.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 46-49

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 24

Written lines: 22 24

Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance

V

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 75r-84r
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

Fragment containing Birkat ha-mazon, with Ps. 23 preceding it and Al ha-nisim following.

Colophon: הסופר לא יוזק. עד שיעלה חמור בסולם. אני יוסף בר גרשון. f. 82v

f. 82v animal pen and ink drawings.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 10 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 75-84

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 10

Written lines: 10

Uniform layout.

Hard-point ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 17th century. Yosef ben Gershon: inscribed, folio 82v.

History

Origin: 17th century ; Germany

Provenance

Additional Information

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=Arundel_Or_50 (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. 1050.

Funding of Cataloguing

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