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Add MS 27106
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- Add MS 27106
- Title:
- Collection of astronomical works
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 130 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27106 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1459
- End Date:
- 1459
- Date Range:
- 1459
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27106
Collection of astronomical works
Contents
Astronomical works.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 2r-81vTitle: Ḥeshbon mahalakhot ha-kokhavimTitle: חשבון מהלכות הכוכביםColophon: ותשלם כל המלאכה אשר פעלתי ועשיתי בספר הזה בכ"ט אייר בסיון שנת רי"ט לפ"ק שהוא קליני לולייו וכתבתיהו אני הצעיר שם טוביצ"ו אל הנחמד להשכיל כמ"ר שמואל יזיי"א ממודינא בכמ"ר משה זלה"ה ה' יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות וישים חלקו עם מצדיקי הרבים ככתו' ומצדיקי הרבים ככוכבים לעולם ועד אמן סלה ועד חזק. f. 81rff. 82r-98vTitle: Panim be-mishpaṭTitle: פנים במשפטIn the Hebrew translation of Shelomoh ben Avraham Avigdor.
ff. 99r-102vTitle: Be᾿ur shesh kenafimTitle: באור שש כנפיםA short anonymous commentary on Immanuel ben Ya῾aḳov Shesh kenafim.
ff. 103r-130vTitle: Mar᾿eh ha-ofanimTitle: מראה האופניםIn the Hebrew translation of Shelomoh ben Avraham Avigdor, with the colophon of the translator appended at the end.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 130 foliosDimensions (leaf): 212 × 150 mm.Dimensions (written): 122 × 75 mm.Foliation:130 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end). Folio 1 is a recent flyleaf.
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, with decorated signatures at the beginning or at the end of the quires.
Condition
Tidemarks at edges and occasionally across text.
Usage stains.
Slight foxing.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 24
Written lines: 24
Uniform layout.
Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.
Marginal notes and additions throughout.
Decorated catchwords from folio to folio (irregular).
Initials in larger square characters.
Diagrams, folios 110v, 111r, 122r, 123v, 124v, 125v, 126r, 130r (zodiac signs).
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive of the 15th century. Shem Ṭov: inscribed in the colophon, folio 81r.
Additions:Appended are: a table (folio 129v) headed Luaḥ ha-gevulim, and a diagram (folio 130r) of the signs of zodiac.
Binding
Post 1600. Ivory vellum, damaged. Boxed.
Spine: 'Abr. ben Chiya. Cheshbon Ham-Mahalachoth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,106.'
History
Origin: 1459 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Shemu᾿el (mi-Modena) ben Mosheh: inscribed in the colophon, folio 81r.
censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1601 (folio 129v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 212: 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 (i)v.
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_27106 (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. 1005.Bibliography
[Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.Funding of Cataloguing
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