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Add MS 27157

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032-003313920
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Add MS 27157
Title:
Astronomical and calendrical notes by Aviad Sar Shalom ben Menachem Simson Basila
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
45 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27157 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1690
End Date:
1709
Date Range:
1690-1709
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aviad Sar Shalom ben Menachem Simson Basila
Basilea, Solomon Aviad Sar-Shalom, 1680?-1743,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000048067993,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12203149
Basilea, Solomon Aviad Sar-Shalom, 1680?-1743,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000048067993,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12203149
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27157

Astronomical and calendrical notes by Aviad Sar Shalom ben Menachem Simson Basila

Contents

Astronomical and calendrical notes.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-45v
Title: He῾arot be-asṭronomiyah
Title: הערות באסטרונומיה

The major part is in Italian.

Folio 31 contains a letter signed by Shalom Basila (dated 1702).

Author: Basila, Aviad Sar Shalom ben Menachem Simson בזילה, אביעד שר שלום בן מנחם שמשון

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 45 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205/140 × 115/100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190/125 × 125/90 mm.
Foliation:

45 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Bound together with Add MS 27158.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Non-uniform layout.

Leaves of various shape and size (small quarto or octavo).

Different number of written lines per page.

Calendrical tables.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script (Hebrew and Latin character) of the 17th to 18th century. An autograph of Aviad Sar Shalom ben Menachem Simson Basila.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Astron. Excerpts. Ital. and Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,157. 27,158.'

History

Origin: 1690-1709 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 268a; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000: 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_27157 (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. 1018.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL