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Add MS 27144
- Record Id:
- 032-003313914
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- Add MS 27144
- Title:
- Miscellany
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 032-003313914
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 211 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27144 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1500-1799
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27144
Miscellany
Contents
Miscellany.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-35vTitle: Ḳemi῾ot u-segulotTitle: קמיעות וסגלותA collection of charms and amulets, mostly accompanied with magical signs and letters of angelic alphabet.
ff. 36r-37vTitle: Ha-mashma῾ut shel ha-mishḳan ṿe-kilavTitle: המשמעות של המשכן וכליוA philosophical-mystical explanation of the tabernacle and its contents.
ff. 37v-53rTitle: Sefer ha-tapuaḥTitle: ספר התפוחIn Avraham ben Hasdai translation.
ff. 53r-53vTitle: Ḥibur ῾al derekh ha-derushTitle: חבור על דרך הדרושff. 54r-62vTitle: Ḥibur be-filosofiyahTitle: חבור בפילוסופיהff. 63r-83vTitle: Igeret ha-ḥalomTitle: אגרת החלוםDefective at the end.
ff. 84r-85vTitle: Sefer ha-yesodotTitle: ספר היסודותff. 85v-89vTitle: Derashot shonotTitle: דרשות שונותff. 90r-91rTitle: Ḥidah ῾al otiyot ahv"yTitle: חידה על אותיות אהו"יff. 91r-93vTitle: ῾Ezer ha-datTitle: עזר הדתA fragment only.
ff. 94r-103vTitle: Ḥibur be-diḳduḳTitle: חבור בדקדוקImperfect at the beginning and at the end.
ff. 104r-133vTitle: Hilkhot sheḥitah u-ṭerefotTitle: הלכות שחיטה וטרפותOn folio 111v (originally left blank) some other notes on sheḥitah have been written down by a later hand.
The text is imperfect at the end.
ff. 134r-211vTitle: Kanefe yonahTitle: כנפי יונהFiliation: Cf. Add MS 26969.The manuscript contains Part 1, followed by Kaṿanot sefirat ha-῾omer, and a few sections of the second part of Kanefe yonah.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th to 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 211 foliosDimensions (leaf): 132 × 95 mm.Dimensions (written): 95/115 × 70/85 mm.Foliation:211 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation
Variable.
Condition
Usage stains.
Damp entries.
Defective at the beginning.
Leaves missing after folios 53, 83, 93, 103, 130, 133.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 15 21
Written lines: 15 21
Uniform layout.
Larger initial words throughout.
Catchwords on every verso in the latter part of the manuscript.
Yellow edges.
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 16th to 17th century, and Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.
ff. 1r-133v: Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 16th to 17th century;ff. 134r-211v: Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Miscellaneous Works. Brit. Mus. Additional Or. 27,144.'
History
Origin: 16th-18th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Italy
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 251: 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_27144 (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. 1083.Funding of Cataloguing
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