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Add MS 26946

Record Id:
032-003313857
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Add MS 26946
Title:
Prayers for Rosh ha-shanah with kabbalistic comments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
31 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26946 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26946

Prayers for Rosh ha-shanah with kabbalistic comments

Contents

Kabbalistic writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-31v
Title: Tefilot ῾im kavanot u-perushim ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Title: תפלות עם כוונות ופירושים על דרך הקבלה

The text of the prayers for Rosh ha-shanah (in square script), accompanied by kabbalistic comments (in cursive script, mostly interlinear). Parts of the commentary attributed to Moses Zacuto.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 31 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

31 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Major losses infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 14 19

Written lines: 14 19

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling visible.

14 to 19 lines of square writing to a full page between folios 1-17, number of lines on appended folios varies.

Square initial words.

Catchwords on every page.

Extensive marginal notes throughout.

Hand(s)

Italian square and cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Comm. On The Prayers For The New Year. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,946.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 55: 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, folio [33v].

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_26946 (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. 855.

Funding of Cataloguing

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