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Add MS 27148

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Add MS 27148
Title:
Ziḳne Yehudah by Leone Modena
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
109 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27148 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1648
Date Range:
1600-1648
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Leone Modena
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27148

Ziḳne Yehudah by Leone Modena

Contents

A collection of responses.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-107v
Title: Ziḳne Yehudah
Title: זקני יהודה
Author: Modena, Leone מודנה, יהודה אריה בן יצחק

131 responses. Folios 76r-84v contain diplomas granted by the author to a considerable number of younger contemporaries. Folio 86r cintains a similar document signed Menahem Azariah (of Fano) and endorsed by Yehudah Aryeh in 1606. Folios 86v and 87r contain two letters.

Folios 103v-105r contain an index (incomplete) to the responses in the volume, and folios 106r-108r described the contents of two other volumes of responses in possession of the author (32 and 20 entries respectively).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 109 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

109 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Water damage, tidemarks.

Mould at extreme ends and part of foredge.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 46

Written lines: 25 46

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

Some leaves left partly blank.

Folio 2 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive script of the 17th century. Leone Modena: partly an autograph (inscribed, folio 3r).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Jehudah Aryeh. Zikne Yehudah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,148.'

History

Origin: ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

1895-02-11

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 256; 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 (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_27148 (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. 580.

Funding of Cataloguing

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