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Record Id:
032-003313933
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Add MS 27213
Title:
Jewish law
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
42 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1400-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, 1620-1697
Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, 1620-1697
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27213

Jewish law

Contents

A miscellany.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-42v
Title: Miscellany
Title: קובץ

Physical Description

Paper and prachment codex of fragments.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment.
Extent: 42 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

42 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Bound with Add MS 27212.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Hand(s)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Hebrew Fragments. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,212. 27,213.'

History

Origin: 15th-18th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-4v
Title: Ḥidah
Title: חידה

Written in twenty stanzas, with explanations in Italian.

A rough design of a mortar with a hand stirring it, with accompanying words, is given on folio 3v and 4r.

Physical Description

Four paper leaves, originally part of a codex of apparently the 17th or 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 245 mm.
Dimensions (written): 290 × 220 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-4

Layout

Columns:1 4

Ruled lines: 13 46

Written lines: 13 46

Irregular number of columns and lines to a page.

Several erasures.

Side and lower margin partly folded.

Hand(s)

Italian and Hebrew cursive of the 17th or 18th century.

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Italy

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 5r-6v
Title: Maḥzor minhag Roma le-Rosh ha-Shanah
Title: מחזור מנהג רומא לראש השנה

Folio 5 contains the conclusion of the ritual for the second day of the New Year's feast. Folio 6 contains a fragment of the ritual for the fast of Gedaliah.

Physical Description

Part of a parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 5-6

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 7r-36v
Title: Zohar ḥadash
Title: זהר חדש

Fragments of the Zohar ḥadash on the Song of Songs, accompanied by a commentary (in smaller characters).

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of probably the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 30 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 153 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 7-36

Condition

Stained.

Slightly worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Catchwords on every verso.

Initials in larger characters.

Watermark of a cross with a crown enclosed in a circle, with initial BV underneath.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance

IV

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 37r-37v
Title: Ḥibur bi-refu᾿ah (fragment)
Title: חבור ברפואה

Physical Description

Fragment of a codex of abouth the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 132 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 27

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Regular layout, with a catchword on verso.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

V

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 38r-39v
Title: Maḥzor ha-moladot
Title: מחזור המולדות

A fragment containing the cycles of the new moon.

Physical Description

Fragment of a parchment codex of approximately 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 38-39

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19 22

Written lines: 19 22

Catchwords on versos.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Oriental?) semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

VI

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 40r-40v
Title: Shirim
Title: שירים
Author: Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697 זכות, משה בן מרדכי

The first poem begins with ארים בקול בוכיה , and the second: הודי נהפך / לבי נשפך. The first poem contains an acrostic: אני משה זכות.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 146 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 40

Condition

Folio previously folded in 2.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 29 32

Written lines: 29 32

Text divided into two columns, and each column into 4 verse stophes.

One catchword preserved on folio 40r.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century ; Italy

Provenance

VII

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 41r-42v
Title: Shir
Title: שיר

In the main piece every word begins with the letter alef. Below it are some verses divided into three strophes. The verso is mostly a doodle-page.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 132 mm.
Dimensions (written): 70 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 41

Condition

Previously folded.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Irregular layout.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Oriental?) semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 17th century

VIII

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 42r-42v
Title: Teshuvah be-῾inyan birkat kohanim
Title: תשובה בענין ברכת כהנים

On the verso of the page there are some accounts in Arabic (in Hebrew characters), all of which have been crossed through.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 42

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Oriental?) semi-cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.

History

Origin: 16th-17th century

Additional Information

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_27213 (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. 1091.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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