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Or 1082

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Or 1082
Title:
Sefer ha-῾iḳarim by Joseph Albo
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
167 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1483
Date Range:
1483
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Albo, Joseph
Albo, Joseph, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435080784,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24939318,
Ya῾aḳov
Ya῾aḳov Binyamin
Yehudah ben Yosef Matab
Yosef ben Yehudah
שלמנקה
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1082

Sefer ha-῾iḳarim by Joseph Albo

Contents

A treatise on the philosophy of religion.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-167v
Title: Sefer ha-῾iḳarim
Title: ספר העקרים

Defective at the beginning. Begins in the middle of chapter 15 of the first section.

Author: Albo, Joseph אלבו, יוסף
Colophon: החל וישלם הספר הזה ביום שני טו"ב ימים לחדש שני שנת י'ג'ל' לבי עלי מאה שני לפרט היצירה מהאלף הששי בשלמנקהעיר מולדתי ומושבי ממשפחתי ומבית אבי. f. 167r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 405 × 290 mm.
Dimensions (written): 350 × 230 mm.
Foliation:

167 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Slight worming at end

Ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Larger initial words.

Numerous marginal corrections of the text.

Folio 123v blackened over.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Ya῾aḳov Binyamin: his name showed in the acrostic of 10 lines following the colophon on folio 167r; the name Ya῾aḳov marked off throughout the manuscript: folio 97v, 101r, 169r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Albo. Sepher Ha-Ikkarim. A.D. 1483. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1082.'

History

Origin: 1483 Spain (Salamanca)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yehudah ben Yosef Matab, Yosef ben Yehudah and Ya῾aḳov: inscribed, folio 167r.

Purchased through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: inscribed, folio [192v].

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_1082 (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. 921.

Funding of Cataloguing

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