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Add MS 27089
Title:
Collection of Jewish legal and midrashic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
169 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, rabbi, scholar, 1260-1340
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, rabbi, scholar, 1260-1340
Benjamin ben Jonah de Tudela, 1130?-1173?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118746300,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/32154389
Benjamin ben Jonah de Tudela, 1130?-1173?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118746300,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/32154389
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Giuseppe Almanzi
Menaḥem Alendorf
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27089

Collection of Jewish legal and midrashic works

Contents

A collection of Jewish legal and midrashic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-3r
Title: Sefer ha-tsiṿuy
Title: ספר הצווי
Author: Maimonides, Moses (attributed to him) משה בן מימון (מיוחס לו)
ff. 3v-4v
Title: Sefer ha-refuʾot
Title: ספר הרפואות
Author: Maimonides, Moses (attributed to him) משה בן מימון (מיוחס לו)
ff. 5r-9r
Title: Ḥamishim she῾are refuʾot
Title: חמשים שערי רפואות
Author: Maimonides, Moses (attributed to him) משה בן מימון (מיוחס לו)
ff. 10r-61v
Title: Midrash rabah (Ekhah)
Title: מדרש רבה (איכה)
ff. 62r-68v
Title: He῾arot le-midrash Ekhah rabati
Title: הערות למדרש איכה רבתי
ff. 70r-89v
Title: Perush sefer yetsirah
Title: פרוש ספר יצירה
ff. 90r-92r
Title: ῾Inyane mazalot
Title: עניני מזלות
ff. 93r-95v
Title: Midrash ῾eser galuyot
Title: מדרש עשר גלויות
ff. 95v-96v
Title: Midrash ḥibuṭ ha-ḳever
Title: מדרש חיבוט הקבר
ff. 97r-102r
Title: Midrash nitnah ha-Torah
Title: מדרש ניתנה התורה
ff. 103r-108r
Title: Peṭirat Mosheh rabenu
Title: פטירת משה רבינו
ff. 109r-110r
Title: Midrash Shelomoh ha-melekh
Title: מדרש שלמה המלך
ff. 110v-112v
Title: Pereḳ de-rabi Eli῾ezer ben Hurḳanos
Title: פרק דר' אליעזר בן הורקנוס
ff. 112v-114r
Title: Sidur shel midot ṭovot
Title: סדור של מדות טובות
ff. 114r-115v
Title: Yesod alef bet
Title: יסוד אלף בית
ff. 117r-139r
Title: Shulḥan shel arba῾
Title: שלחן של ארבע
Author: Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava בחיי בן אשר אבן חלאוה
Colophon: ברוך הנותן ליעף כח שזיכתי וסייעני לגמור הספר הזה היו' יו' ו' ח"י סיון רס"ד בעיר מיישטרי לאהובו ההגון הח"ר מיכיל יצ"ו וה' ברחמיו יזכהו ויחייהו להגות בו ולקיים אמרי שפר כל הכתוב בו ולהנחילו לבני בניו אחריו עד כי יבא שילה כ"ח הסופר מנחם אלדנדורף אינש שפיל ואזיל הנמלה קצוצי האברה ההגיע לשנים אשר אין לו בהם חפץ וכו'. f. 139r
ff. 141r-147r
Title: Perush hagadah shel Pesaḥ ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Title: פרוש הגדה של פסח על דרך הקבלה
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם
Colophon: יו' ו' י"ט אייר רס"ד סיימתי עד הנה במיישטרש [...] לעמיתי ידי כאחי הח"ר מיכיל י"ץ איש ירושלים תוב"ב. f. 147r
ff. 149r-161v
Title: Masa῾ot Binyamin
Title: מסעות בנימין
Author: Benjamin, of Tudela בנימין בן יונה מטודלה
ff. 163v-164v
Title: Perush Nevi᾿im
Title: פרוש נביאים
ff. 165r-168v
Title: Midrash ṿa-yisa῾u
Title: מדרש ויסעו

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 169 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150/160/150/155/157 × 115/110/100/90 mm.
Foliation:

169 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Fire damage or corrosion on folios 147-158, repaired and infilled.

Slight damp and mould damage.

Usage stains in margins.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 45

Written lines: 25 45

Non-uniform layout.

Part of initial words and headings in larger square characters.

Diagrams, e.g. folios 90r-92r.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Plummet ruling (frame only).

Hand(s)

Italian and Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century. Menaḥem Alendorf: inscribed, folio 139r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Benjamin of Tudela. Sepher Massa'oth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,089.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Italy and Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 195: 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).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27089 (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. 1076.

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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