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Add MS 17806
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- Add MS 17806
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- Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimhi
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- [iii]+300+[iii]
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- Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic - Scripts:
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- Start Date:
- 1384
- End Date:
- 1384
- Date Range:
- 1384
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 17806
Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimhi
Contents
Grammatical work.
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic
ff. 1r-300vTitle: Sefer ha-shorashimTitle: ספר השרשיםIncludes an appendix on the Aramaic words in the Hebrew Bible. Folio 2r opens with a preface. The epilogue precedes the Aramaic section in the manuscript.
The subscriptions and headings of the alphabetical sections are nearly throughout in rhymed lines.
Colophon: בן ששים ושלש שנה אנכי היום וסימנהון ה' צבאות יג"ן עלינו ועל עמו ישראל בכל מקום מושבותינו אמן / נשלם ברביעי בשבת בעשרים ושלשה יום לירח אב? ש?נת חמשת אלפים ומאה וארבעים לבריאת עולם למניין? שאנו? רגילין למנות בו פה ב?[טר?אני?] אברהם? הדל? [באלפי נתנאל? ז"ל כתבתי זה הס?] ונהיה מן הנכתבים? דכתי'? ואני זאת? בריתי אותם אמר ה' רוחי אשר עליך ודברי אשר שמתי בפיך לא ימושו מפיך ומפי זרעך ומפי זרע זרעך אמר ה' מעתה ועד עולם. והגיתי בכל פעליך במעשה ידך אשוחח כבודך ה'. f. 300rPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: [iii]+300+[iii]Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 179 mm.Dimensions (written): 175 × 115 mm.Foliation:300 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end and with signatures at the beginning.
Condition
Usage stains.
First leaves damaged, with no loss of text.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 31
Written lines: 31
Uniform layout.
Visible hard-point ruling and pricking.
Hair side and flesh side of folios hardly distinguishable.
Titles and inital words in larger square characters.
Marginal notes.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 14th century. Avraham ben Natanel: inscribed in the colophon, folio 300r.
ff. 2r-61vandff. 62r-300v: written by two different Italian hands.Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Kimchi. Liber Radicum. Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 17,806.'
History
Origin: 1384 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Folio 300v: deed of transfer (date erased), recording the sale of the manuscript by the widow of R. Yisrael to Avraham Rafael ben ῾Azriel, the names of witnesses being Binyamin ben Yisrael and Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ.
Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 299v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.
Andrea del Monte: inscribed with his name, 'ho revisto questo libro io andrea del monte' (folio 300r).
1877-11-24
Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 November 1877: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17806 (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. 962.Bibliography
[Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.Funding of Cataloguing
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