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Add MS 26995

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Add MS 26995
Title:
Collection of biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
123 folios (iii+123+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
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:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26995

Collection of biblical commentaries

Contents

Biblical commentaries and homilies.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian, Italian

ff. 1r-123v
Title: Derushim, ḥidushim u-ve᾿urim
Title: דרושים, חדושים ובאורים

Arranged by subjects in alphabetical order: אדם וחוה (Adam and Eve), גלות וגאולה (diaspora and redemption) etc.

Ff. 39r-39v: a homily delivered in an Ashkenazic synagogue in the year 5465 (1704/5) in Hebrew and in Italian (Latin characters), beginning: הגדה - דרוש שעליתי ביום שח"מ של פסח בבה"כ של אשכנסים שנת תס"ה.

F. 51r: a homily in Italian (Hebrew characters).

With occasional notes in Italian (e.g. f. 60v).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 123 folios (iii+123+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 211 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 1v, 4v, 5v, 9v, 11v, 12v, 18v, 19v, 20v, 22v, 30v, 37v, 38v, 41v, 42v, 45v, 56v, 59v, 62v, 63v, 68v, 70v, 84v, 86v, 92v, 97v, 99v, 107v, 111v, are blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after ff. 19, 29, 107.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Dirt entry at head.

Tidemarks and splash-marks at edges.

Usage stains.

Slight foxing.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Non-uniform layout.

Runing titles.

Marginal notes.

Ff. 50, 83 are only narrow slips of paper inserted into the collation.

F. 123: wider than the rest of the collation, outer margin is folded.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Derashoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,995.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 107: 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 1841-1853: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26995 (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), vol. IV., p. 151.

Funding of Cataloguing

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