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032-003313931
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Title:
Collection of hymns
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
211 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
Ya῾aḳov Eliyahu ben Daṿid Hayim Reḳaḥ
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Add MS 27206

Collection of hymns

Contents

A collection of hymns, for the most part composed by Israel Najara.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-211v
Title: She᾿arit Yisra᾿el
Title: שארית ישראל
Author: Najara, Israel ben Moses נג'רה, ישראל בן משה

The pieces are arranged under the headings of Turkish tunes to which they were to be sung.

Folios 3r-18r contain a table of contents, arranged alphabetically.

Folios 211r contains some notes relating to the acrostics (of the name of the piece's author) or to the occasion of their use.

See Benayahu 1990, pp. 256-271.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 211 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 145 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 180 mm.
Foliation:

211 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Original foliation.

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Non-uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Titles and inital words in larger, frequently square characters.

Pen and ink decorated initial letters and titles, e.g. folio 87r-87v.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

The flyleaves contain some schemes of rhythms in strokes and dots.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Israel Najara. Sheerith Yisrael. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,206.'

History

Origin: 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov Eliyahu ben Daṿid Hayim Reḳaḥ?: inscribed, folio 2v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 321: 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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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. 936.
    M. Benayahu, 'Rabbi Israel Najara', Asufot. 4 (1990), pp. 203-284.

Funding of Cataloguing

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