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Add MS 27047

Record Id:
032-003313886
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032-003313886
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Add MS 27047
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
117 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27047 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1850
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1850-1857
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Catalano, Moses ben Abraham,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308281075
Catalano, Moses ben Abraham,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308281075
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
Joseph Almanzi
Ḳaṭalano, Avraham,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000402166063,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/297588502
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27047

Miscellany

Contents

Grammatical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-100r
Title: Ma῾aseh efod
Title: מעשה אפד

The date of copying is most probably the later one, as it appears at the end of the text.

Folios 1-2 contain a list of authors and works mentioned in the Grammar.

Author: Duran, Profiat, 1350-1415 דוראן, פרופיאט הלוי‏
Incipit: נעתק פה פאדובה מהצעיר יו - אל בשנת התק"ץ לפ"ג. f. 3r
Colophon: והיתה השלמת העתקת ספר הנחמד הזה מאת יוסף אלמנצי פאדובה ביום השמיני לחדש השמיני בשנת התר"י מהעתק ישן נושן מש[נת] רי"א הנמצא אצל ידידו היקר החכם שד"ל. f. 100r
ff. 101r-116r
Title: ῾Olam hafukh
Title: עולם הפוך
Author: Catalano, Abraham קטלנו, אברהם
Incipit: אנכי איש צעיר ונבזה יוסף אלמנצי העתקתי ספר זה מכ"י הנמצא אצל ידידי [...] כמ"ר גבריאל ישראל יוסף חיים (בר מאיר) טריאסטי היו [...] והיתה כל זאת בחדש שבט התרי"ז [...] בשנה הזאת וביום ח' לירח הזה לקחה ממני [...] מרת אמי תנצב"ה. f. 101r
ff. 116r-117v
Title: Shirim
Title: שירים
Author: Catalano, Moses ben Abraham קטלנו, משה בן אברהם

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 117 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150/135 × 92/80 mm.
Foliation:

117 folios (+ 85 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end). The front pastedown is foliated as folio 1, thus only its verso side is visible.

Collation

Quires of mostly 20 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 30 38

Written lines: 30 38

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Vertical pencil ruling.

Catchwords on most of the pages (partly cut off).

Hand(s)

Semi-cursive and cursive script of the 19th century. Joseph Almanzi: inscribed, folio 3r, 101r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prophiat Duran. Ma'ase Ephod. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,047.'

History

Origin: 1850-1857 Italy (Padua)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 153: 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 (lxxxv)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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27047 (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. 971.

Funding of Cataloguing

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