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032-003313881
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Title:
Novellae by Nissim Gerondi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
322 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gerondi, Nissim ben Reuben, Talmudic scholar, c 1315-1376
Gerondi, Nissim ben Reuben, Talmudic scholar, c 1315-1376
Giuseppe Almanzi
Hippolytus
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Add MS 27024

Novellae by Nissim Gerondi

Contents

Contains novellae and notes on various tractates of the Talmud by Nissim Gerondi.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-322v
Title: Ḥidushim
Title: חדושים
Author: Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi נסים בן ראובן, גרונדי
ff. 1v-62v
Title: Novellae on Pesaḥim
ff. 62v-109v
Title: Novellae on Betsah
ff. 109v-265v
Title: Novellae on Shabat
ff. 265v-299r
Title: Novellae in Ta῾anit
ff. 299r-322v
Title: Novellae on Megilah

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment.
Extent: 322 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145/150 × 90/85 mm.
Foliation:

322 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Folios 1-297 contain 15 quiresof 20 leaves each (1 leaf is missing after folio 11 and 1 leaf was cancelled after folio 298). The two outer and the two inner leaves in each quire are parchment, the rest is paper.

Folios 299-322 contain 2 quires of 8 leaves each, 1 quires of 6 leaves, and a folding of 2 leaves at the end. All the leaves are paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 27

Written lines: 22 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Sections' initials given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Two Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

ff. 1r-297v
and
ff. 299r-322v
are due to two different but contemporary Sefardi hands.

Additions:

Folio 1r bears a title written in an Italian cursive hand of the 16th century.

Folio 322v contain notes in a Sefardi cursive hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Nissim Gerondi. Chiddushin 'al Pesachim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 024.'

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Hippolytus: inscribed with a date of 1601: folio 322v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 130: 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 dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)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_27024 (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. 436.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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