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Add MS 19971

Record Id:
032-003313838
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Add MS 19971
Title:
Collection of historical writings of Elijah Capsali
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
429 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19971 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Capsali, Elijah, 1490?-1555?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000057874738,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16525542,
Capsali, Elijah, 1490?-1555?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000057874738,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16525542,
Solomon Netter
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19971

Collection of historical writings of Elijah Capsali

Contents

Various historical writings of Elijah Capsali.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-343v
Title: Seder Eliyahu zuta
Title: סדר אליהו זוטא

A detailed account of the history of the Ottoman Empire, beginning with Mehmed II, and continuing to 1523.

Appended are two additional pieces: the first entitled 'Koaḥ ha-Shem', and treats on the plague in Crete in 1523 (folios 270v-292r); the second, 'Hasde ha-Shem', is an account of the rebellion of Ahmad Shaitan against sultan Soloman in 1524, and the deliverance of the Cairene Jews from the destruction (folios 292v-337r).

At the end, there is an elegy, in rhymed prose, on notable men who died in the plague described in Koaḥ ha-Shem, followed by thanksgiving for the author's deliverance from it, and an account of the origin of his literary work (folios 337r-343v).

Author: Capsali, Elijah, -1555 קפשלי, אליהו בן אלקנה
ff. 344r-429v
Author: Capsali, Elijah, -1555 קפשלי, אליהו בן אלקנה
Title: Divre ha-yamim le-malkhut Ṿenezia
Title: דברי הימים למלכות ונזיאה

A history of the Republic of Venice, with an account of the author's travels in Northern Italy.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 429 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

429 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (too tightly bound).

Condition

Usage stains.

Liquid spills.

Damp entry at corners.

Paling ink.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Leaves missing after folio 47, 74, 424.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Larger initial words.

Some leaves folded, e.g., folio 13, 226, 227, 346, 347, etc.

Folio 94 only partially preserved.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'R. Elijah Kapsoli. Historia Judeorum Sub Imperio Turcico. 1450-1523. Etc. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 19,971.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Crete?

Provenance and Acquisition

1854-10-14

Solomon Netter: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 October 1854: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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=Add_MS_19971 (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. 1059.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL