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032-003313919
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Add MS 27153
Title:
Collection of philosophical and astronomical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
50 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1431
End Date:
1431
Date Range:
1431
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham Grazziano 'Ish Ger'
Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, d 1384
Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, d 1384
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
John XXI, Pope, d 1277
Judah ben Jehiel, fl 15th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89803764
Judah ben Jehiel, fl 15th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89803764
Renato da Modena
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27153

Collection of philosophical and astronomical works

Contents

A collection of various philosophical and astronomical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

Title:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Comm. on the Shesh Kenaphim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,153.'

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 263: 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.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

f. 3r
Title: Mafteaḥ ha-pesuḳim be-Moreh nevukhim
Title: מפתח הפסוקים במורה נבוכים

Fragmentary index of the biblical passages in the Guide for the Perplexed.

ff. 3v-4v
Title: Ḥibur be-asṭronomiyah
Title: חבור באסטרונומיה
Colophon: תם ונשלם שבח לבורא עולם על ידי בנימן יה"ל בכמ"ר מתתיה זלה"ה פה ב סיינה ח יינרו שנת קצ"א לפרט האלף השישי ליצירה לוי"א. f. 4v

A short astronomical tract showing how to calculate the time of the newmoon and of the sun's eclipse by means of Immanuel ben Jacob's Shesh Kenafayim.

f. 5r
Title: ῾Inyane asṭronomiyah
Title: עניני אסטרונומיה
ff. 5v-6v
Title: Be᾿ur shesh kenafayim shel ῾Imanu᾿el ben Ya῾aḳov
Title: באור שש כנפים של עמנואל בן יעקב
ff. 7r-9r
Author: Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham אביגדור, שלמה בן אברהם
Title: Be᾿ur shesh kenafayi
Title: Be᾿ur shesh kenafayim shel ῾Imanu᾿el ben Ya῾aḳov
Title: באור שש כנפים של עמנואל בן יעקב

Diagram and a volvelle.

ff. 8v-9r

ff. 9v-13r
Title: Sefer ha-higayon
Title: ספר ההגיון
Author: Petrus, HispanusJohn XXI, Pope פטרוס היספנוס

Extracts from the treatise on logic by Petrus Hispanus in the Hebrew recension of Abraham Avigdor ben Meshullam.

At the end (folio 13r) are some short medical prescriptions, and an astrological note.

Filiation: For another manuscript with extracts from this work, see Add MS 27087 (Margoliouth no. 884; for the entire work see Or 1306 (Margoliouth no. 917).
ff. 13v-37r
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר אבן
Title: Sefer ha-mispar
Title: ספר המספר

With a number of marginal notes.

A diagram on folio 13v.

Several tables on folios 16r, 26r, 27r, 28r-30v, 35v-37r.

ff. 37v-40v
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר אבן
Title: Sefer ha-eḥad
Title: ספר האחד

Some arithmetical problems are appended (folios 39v-40v).

Explicit: נשלם ספר המספר מאבן עזרה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 148 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 10 mm.
Foliation:

40 folios

Collation

Indeterminable. Folios 1-2 are foliated flyleaves.

Signatures at the head and the end of quires in Hebrew letters (folios 20v-21r and 40v).

Condition

Damp at edges, with mould weakness in part. Old infills for lost areas.

Various spills, stains, and glue stains in gutter.

Imperfect at the beginning.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 38

Written lines: 28 38

Uniform layout.

Repeated words at beginning of folios.

Pricking for frame/verticals only.

Plummet ruling, for frame only.

Last written line outside ruling.

Larger initial words and headings.

Diagrams.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century; the scribe is Binyamin ben Matatyah (see colophon on folio 4v).

History

Origin: 1431 Italy (Siena)

Provenance

Abraham Grazziano ('Ish Ger'): folio 1r.

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 41r-50v
Author: Judah ben Jehiel יהודה בן יחיאל מסיר ליאון
Title: Livnat ha-sapir
Title: לבנת הספיר

Fragments only.

Date post quem 1454, the date of the compostion of the work.

f. 47r Pen and ink drawing of a plant.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 40-50

Collation

On guards.

Condition

Old infills for lost areas.

Various spills, stains.

Imperfect at the beginning.

Lacunae after folio 41, 48, 49.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 38

Written lines: 28 38

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words and headings.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Decoration

A ink drawing of a plant with different types of leaves.

f. 47r

History

Origin: Not before 1454 ; Italy?

Provenance

Censored by Renato da Modena: inscribed with his name, 'Visto per me fr. Renato da Mod[en]a, 1626' (folio 49v); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

Additional Information

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_27153 (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. 1085.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL