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Add MS 27115
Title:
Commentary on the Mishnah (Pirḳe avot) by Eliʿezer Naḥman Foʾah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
114 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Foʼah, Eliʻezer Naḥman, 1600-1699
Foʼah, Eliʻezer Naḥman, 1600-1699
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 27115

Commentary on the Mishnah (Pirḳe avot) by Eliʿezer Naḥman Foʾah

Contents

A commentary on Pirḳe avot by Eliʿezer Naḥman Foʾah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-114v
Title: Perush Pirḳe avot
Title: פרוש פרקי אבות
Author: Foʾah, Eliʿezer Naḥman, active 17th century פואה, אליעזר נחמן בן שמואל
Colophon: שבח ותודה למלך מלכי המלכים גבור על כל גבורים שזיכני אני שלמה חזק להשלים מלהעתיק פי' מכמוהר"ר אליעזר נחמן פואה על הפרקים דבריו מפז ומזהב רב נחמדים: f. 114v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 114 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

114 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the end). Original Hebrew foliation given in the upper left-hand corner of the recto page.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

One leaf is missing after folio 9.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words given in square script.

Marginal notes and erasures.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Eliezer N. Foa. Comm. on Pirke Aboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,115.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 210: 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_27115 (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. 467.

Bibliography

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

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