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Add MS 26948

Record Id:
032-003313859
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Add MS 26948
Title:
Collection of polemical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
26 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Duran, Profiat, 1350?-1415?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079837532,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/13522985
Duran, Profiat, 1350?-1415?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079837532,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/13522985
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26948

Collection of polemical works

Contents

Religious polemical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-17v
Title: Kelimat ha-goyim
Title: כלימת הגוים
Author: Duran, Profiat, 1350-1415 דורן, יצחק בן משה
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 26961.
ff. 18r-26v
Title: Vikuaḥ ῾al netsiḥut ha-Torah
Title: וכוח על נצחיות התורה

An account of public religious debate held in the Convent of Jesuits in Ferrara in April 1617 between the anonymous author (perhaps Azriel Petahyah Aletino) and a Jesuit priest, Alphonso Caracciola, by order of the papal legate, Cardinal Orazio Spinola.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 26 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

26 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Quires of 12 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout.

Visible ink ruling.

Square initial words.

Hair-side and flesh-side of folios distinguishable.

Marginal notes and additions.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house, hardback cover.

Spine: 'Additional 26,948. Brit. Mus. Kelimath Hag-Goyim, Etc. Hebrew.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Italy (Ferrara?)

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26948 (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. 1066.

Funding of Cataloguing

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