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Add MS 27209

Record Id:
032-003313932
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032-003313932
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Add MS 27209
Title:
Collection of legal, astrological and mathematical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
104 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27209 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Rovigo, Abraham ben Menahem
Roṿigo, Avraham ben Menaḥem,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308282934
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27209

Collection of legal, astrological and mathematical works

Contents

A collection of legal, astrological and mathematical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-37v
Title: Ḳovets ketavim
Title: קובץ כתבים

Legal documents attested by Abraham ben Menahem Rovigo and others, dating from5318 (1548).

Author: Rovigo, Abraham ben Menahem רוויגו, אברהם בן מנחם
ff. 38r-56r
Title: Goralot
Title: גורלות

An anonymous astrological work.

Filiation: Cf. Add MS 27017 for a similar work.
ff. 57r-104v
Title: Ḥibur be-algebrah
Title: חבור באלגברה

A treatise in arithmetic.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 104 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

104 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Water damage and mould at foot throughout. Some tidemarks.

Foxing in all margins.

Some old infills at ends.

Slight worming.

Ink variable in colour, some entirely washed away.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 27

Written lines: 25 27

Non-uniform layout.

Ink ruling, partly visible.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Marginal notes throughout.

Some leaves left partly blank.

Calculations.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Letters of Abraham of Rovigo. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,209.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 327: 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_27209 (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. 152.vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

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