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Record Id:
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Add MS 26947
Title:
Ḥesed le-Avraham by Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
98 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai, 1570-1643
Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai, 1570-1643
Elisha Valabrega
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 26947

Ḥesed le-Avraham by Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai

Contents

Kabbalistic writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-98v
Title: Ḥesed le-Avraham
Title: חסד לאברהם

On folio 91r follows Berikhat Avraham, of the same author.

See [Zlotnick] 182-183.

Author: Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai אזולאי, אברהם בן מרדכי
Colophon: אני הוא שכתבתי זה הספר הצעיר אלישע ואלאבריגה יצ"ו. f. 98v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 98 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Damp entry at corners.

Severe stains at top corner towards end, occasional elsewhere.

Ink degrading, with some burn-through of heavily inked letters.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 41

Written lines: 41

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling visible.

Square initial words.

Catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century. Elisha Valabrega: inscribed, folio 98v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abraham Azulai. Chesed Le Abraham. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,947.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 56: 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 [100v].

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_26947 (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. 858.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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