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Add MS 19668
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- Add MS 19668
- Title:
- Collection of polemical and philosophocal works
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 211 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19668 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1450
- Date Range:
- 1450
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 19668
Collection of polemical and philosophocal works
Contents
A collection of polemical and philosophocal works.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 3r-16vTitle: Baḳashat ha-maminTitle: בקשת הממיןff. 17r-20vTitle: Baḳashat ha-lamdinTitle: בקשת הלמדיןff. 21r-31vTitle: Elef alafinTitle: אלף אלפיןff. 31v-48rTitle: Igeret al tihyi ke-avotekhaTitle: אגרת אל תהי כאבותיךAddressed to David Bonet ben Goron.
ff. 48r-57rTitle: ῾Arugat ha-mezimah ṿe-pardes ha-ḥokhmahTitle: ערוגת המזימה ופרדס החכמהff. 57r-65vTitle: Igeret ha-musar ha-kelalitTitle: אגרת המוסר הכלליתTranslated from the Arabic of ʻAli ibn Riḍwān by Yehudah Harizi.
ff. 65v-70vTitle: Igeret Aristo el ha-melekh AlexanderTitle: אגרת אריסטו אל המלך אלכסנדרff. 70v-73vTitle: Shir be-milḥamah arukahTitle: שיר במלחמה ערוכהff. 73v-78vTitle: Be-reshit mamlakhat ha-ḥayalimTitle: בראשית ממלכת החייליםA rhymed piece on the game of chess.
ff. 78v-211vTitle: Ketav hitnatslutTitle: כתב התנצלותColophon: בן ארבעים ושמנה שנה אנכי היום בכתבי זה הספר קטון שיש בו כתב התנצלות ואגרת ארסטו וערוגת החכמה ופרדס המזימה ועניינים אחרים והיתה השלמתו היום יום ו' י"ב באייר שנת חמשת אלפים ור"י לבריאת עולם. וכתבתיו לבקשת החכם המפואר ה"ר אברהם כהן י"ץ ב"ב בכ"ר יוסף יש"ר ופרעני משכירותי משלם השם אשר זכני לכותבו הוא יזכהו ויזכנו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות יהיו למאורות. וישלח משיחי' במהרה בימינו ועינינו רואות. ותהלה לאל אשר לו יאות התהלה לא כהתה עיני וסהדי חתימתי כי הוא הזן את הכל מרדכי יזי"י בכמה"ר עובדי' תנצב"ה. f. 210rPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 211 foliosDimensions (leaf): 95 × 66 mm.Dimensions (written): 53 × 40 mm.Foliation:211 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Collation
21 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.
Condition
Slightly stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 13
Written lines: 13
Uniform layout.
Initial words in larger characters.
Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.
Complete ruling by hard point (bifolium by bifolium) and pricking (quire by quire) on outer margin visible.
Graphic filler at the end of line.
Last written line outside ruling.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive and square script of the 15th century.
Additions:Folio 210v: a remedy against a strom on the sea; folio 211r: a formula against robbers.
A Latin inscription, partly illegible: folio 1v.
Folio 2r & 2v: an index of contents in Latin.
Binding
Post-1600. Brown blind-tooled leather. Boxed.
Spine: 'Tractatus Varii. Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Jure Empt. 19.668.'
History
Origin: 1450 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him by the British Museum on 12 November 1853: inscribed, folio [213v].
1853-11-12Record 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_19668 (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. 1058.Funding of Cataloguing
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