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Or 47

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032-003313949
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Or 47
Title:
Biṭul iḳare ha-notsrim by Ḥasdai Crescas
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
37 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Crescas, Ḥasdai, c 1340-1410
Crescas, Ḥasdai, c 1340-1410
Joseph Schönblum
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Or 47

Biṭul iḳare ha-notsrim by Ḥasdai Crescas

Contents

A polemical work against Christianity.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-37v
Title: Biṭul iḳare ha-notsrim
Title: בטול עקרי הנוצרים

Translated from the original Spanish into Hebrew by Joseph ben Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov at Alcala di Henarez in 1451.

Author: Crescas, Ḥasdai, 1340-approximately 1410 קרשקש, חסדאי בן אברהם
Colophon: עם היותי טרוד בעת הזאת מעבודת המלכים אלא שנלחמתי על האמת ועל אנשיה חתרת לבקשת הפנאי המועד מהזמן פה העיר אלקלעא די היפינאריש בעשור אחרון לאב משנת ק"ק וי"ק לאלף הששי . חזק בנלך אאו . f. 37v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 37 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

37 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

4 quires of 10 leaves.

Condition

Marbled paper slightly rubbed. Small delamination on front board.

Damp entry at foredge with tidemarks throughout.

Edges of first few leaves are soft, pleated, and torn.

Some dog-eared corners.

Worming and slight rodent damages.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 29

Written lines: 22 29

Uniform layout.

Visible pencil ruling.

Larger initial words.

Catchwords on every verso (partly cut off).

Folio 1r is a title page.

Hand(s)

Italian (or Ashkenazi) Hebrew cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Light notebook binding with cut card laminate boards. Boxed.

Spine: 'Ben Shemtob. Polemical Treatise. Brit. Mus. Oriental 47.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Schönblum: purchased from him by the British Museum on 25 May 1867: inscribed, back flyleaf (iii)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=Or_47 (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. 1092.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL