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Add MS 17338

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032-003313825
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Add MS 17338
Title:
Collection of halakhic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
34 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17338 (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:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Muelhausen, Yom Tov Lipmann, 14th century-15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123596685,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/289365363
Muelhausen, Yom Tov Lipmann, 14th century-15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123596685,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/289365363
Samson ben Eliezer, fl 14th century
Samson ben Eliezer, fl 14th century
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17338

Collection of halakhic works

Contents

Halakhic writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-31r
Title: Barukh she-amar
Title: ברוך שאמר
Author: Samson ben Eliezer שמשון בן אליעזר

Contains also Tiḳun tefilin of Abraham Zunzheim, with comments by Samson ben Eliezer.

ff. 31r-33r
Title: Petuḥot u-setumot be-Torah
Title: פתוחות וסתומות בתורה
Author: Maimonides, Moses משה בן מימון
ff. 33r-34r
Title: Tiḳun sefer Torah
Title: תקון ספר תורה
Author: Muelhausen, Yom Tov Lipmann יום טוב ליפמן מילהויזן

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 34 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

34 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Dirt and stains at ends.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Square initial words. Headings had been written in silver or colour, now leaden sheen and burn-through.

Marginal notes throughout.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Samson. De Phylacterii. Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Jure Empt. 17338. Plut.'

History

Origin: ; Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

1848-05-13

Adolphus Asher, (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: inscribed, folio [37v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17338 (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. 151., vol. IV (supplement).

Funding of Cataloguing

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