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Or 1058

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Or 1058
Title:
Toledot Adam by Joseph Israel ben Abraham of Forli
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
232 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Camillo Jaghel
Joseph Israel ben Abraham, of Forli
יוסף יז' מתושבי פורלין
יוסף ישראל בן אברהם, מפורלי
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Or 1058

Toledot Adam by Joseph Israel ben Abraham of Forli

Contents

Philosophical treatise by Joseph Israel ben Abraham of Forli.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-152v
Title: Toledot Adam
Title: תולדות האדם

The preface (folio 1r) is followed by an enumeration of the four parts of the work and the contents of the thirty-one chapters of part I. Chapter 1 begins on folio 5v.

Author: Joseph Israel ben Abraham, of Forli יוסף ישראל בן אברהם, מפורלי
Incipit: זה ספר תולדות האדם כלול מדברים רבים הגבאו [צ"ל: הובאו] על דברת האדם קצת על בריאת הנשמה וקצתם על הנפש והרוח וקצתם על יצירת הגוף, ואיך היא התחלת היצירה והשלמת הנפש והגוף והלידה וסדר ימי' החיים עולמיים וההנהגות הנאותות ובלתי נאותות עד ימי החליפה ומה יהיה ההפסד, ואיך יהיה הגמול והעונש ותחיית המתים לעתיד לבא [...] וקמתי אני [...] להשיב לשואלי דבריוסף יז' מתושבי פורליןבכמה"ר אברהם נ"ע מפירוש. f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 232 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

232 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (too tightly bound).

Condition

Slight worming at ends.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes in Oriental cursive script, and also enumerations of sections added in an Italian cursive script. Parts of the notes have been folded inwards, e.g. folio 8-10, 20, 147, 181.

Coloured edges.

Folio to folio catchwords, mostly cut off.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Sefardi) semi-cursive scripts, unpunctuated, of the 15th to 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Toledoth Adam. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 1058.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Africa, N.?

Provenance and Acquisition

An ownership entry in Italian cursive script, dated 1829: folio 2r.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1611 (folio 232v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1058 (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. 922.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL