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Add MS 27008

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Add MS 27008
Title:
Commentary on the Prophets by Mordecai ben Judah Dato
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
47 folios
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Start Date:
1596
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1596
Date Range:
1596
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Names:
Dato, Mordecai ben Judah, rabbi, 1525-1601
Dato, Mordecai ben Judah, rabbi, 1525-1601
Giuseppe Almanzi
Mordecai ben Judah Dato
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27008

Commentary on the Prophets by Mordecai ben Judah Dato

Contents

Commentary on the Prophets.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-47v
Title: Perush Nevi᾿im
Title: פרוש נביאים

Contains short commentaries and notes on the book of Isaiah 5, 28:16-28:29, 37:3-38:20, and the book of Zechariah. An autograph.

Author: Dato, Mordecai ben Judah דאטו, מרדכי בן יהודה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 47 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Guarded as individual leaves before rebinding.

Condition

Damp entry at edges, with some tidemarks across part of the text.

Mould spotting and mottling.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34 42

Written lines: 34 42

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Marginal and interlinear notes and additions.

Section titles in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century. Mordecai ben Judah Dato: an autograph.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mordechai Dato. Discourses. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,008.'

History

Origin: 1596 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 118; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library by the British Museum in 1865 through Asher and Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, folio [49v].

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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27008 (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. 151., vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

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