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Add MS 27136

Record Id:
032-003313913
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032-003313913
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 27136
Title:
Sefer Yosipon
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
311 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27136 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1695
End Date:
1703
Date Range:
1695-1703
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27136

Sefer Yosipon

Contents

Jewish historiographical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118v
Title: Yosipon
Title: יוסיפון

Probably copied from the edition of Constantinople, 1510. Six books divided into ninety-seven chapters.

The preface written by the editor, Tam ben David ibn Yahya, and an enumeration of chapters precede the work.

Incipit: חברו איש אלקים גבור חיל משוח מלחמה כהן לאל עליון הנקרא יוסף בן גוריון הכהן [...] נכתב במנטובה תחת ממשלת רוממות אדוננו הדוכוס פירדינאנדו קרלו גונזגה יר"ה בשנת לא יסור שבט מיהודה ומחוקק מ'ב'י'ן' ר'ג'ל'י'ו' ע'ד' כ'י' יבא שילה ולא יקהת עמים. f. 1r
Explicit: נשלם מלאכת שמים יפה צרופה מזוקקת שבעתים היום ט"ו לחדש אלול שנת כי אני ה' אלקיך מחזיק י'מ'י'נ'ך' ה'א'ו'מ'ר' ל'ך' א'ל' תירא אני עזרתיך פה מנטובה ובימינו תושע יהודה וישראל ישכון לבטח וכו'. f. 311r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 311 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

311 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Damp entry at lower corner.

Wormed at ends, with infilled damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical ruling by folding.

Catchwords on every page.

Larger titles and initial words.

Original foliation on every verso.

Folio 1r as a title page.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Josippon ben Gorion. History of the Jews. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,136.'

History

Origin: 1695-1703 Italy (Mantua)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 243: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27136 (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. 1082.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL