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Add MS 26926
Title:
Legal texts of Ḥevrat raḥamim in Mantua
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
26 folios
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Start Date:
1614
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1614
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1614
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26926

Legal texts of Ḥevrat raḥamim in Mantua

Contents

Legal texts of Ḥevrat raḥamim in Mantua.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-26v
Title: Pinḳas Ḥevrat raḥamim be-Manṭovah
Title: פנקס חברת רחמים במנטובה

The rules of a society called Ḥevrat raḥamim, founded in 1578 in Mantua (folios 1v-14r), with the addition of resolutions subsequently passed by the society (folios 14v-22v).

Folios 23r-26r contain a table of contents of the different parts of the manuscript.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 26 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

26 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

1 full quire of 14 leaves.

Condition

Tears and losses mostly to endpapers.

Damp and mould-spotted corners.

Slight tidemarks at edges of text.

Heavy worming at ends.

Ink burn-through of larger letters.

Binding much damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Square initial words.

Catchwords from folio to folio in earlier part.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

Contemporary. Brown leather, gold-tooled ornaments, date and Hebrew title on the front upper cover.

Spine: 'Rules of a Society at Mantua. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,926.'

History

Origin: 1614 Italy (Mantua)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 8; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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.

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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. 1064.

Funding of Cataloguing

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