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Or 1306

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032-003313972
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Or 1306
Title:
Collection of philosophical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
181 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1306 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1543
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1543-1599
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Caleb ben Eliyahu Afendopolo
Eliyahu ben Yitsḥaḳ Yafet
Fischl Hirsch
Jacob Anatoli
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Shelomoh Begi (?)
Shemuel ibn Tibbon
Yehudah ibn Tibbon
Yosef Begi (?)
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 0809?-0873,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121230006,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 0809?-0873,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121230006,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1306

Collection of philosophical writings

Contents

Philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-152v
Title: ῾Ets ḥayim
Title: עץ חיים

Folios 132v-152v contain an index to ῾Ets ḥayim, titled Derekh ῾ets ḥayim, written by Caleb ben Eliyahu Afendopolo.

Author: Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369 אהרן בן אליהו מניקומדיה
Colophon: כתבתיו לבני אליהו יצ"ו [...] והשלמתיו אני כלב בכר אליאו טרנו ז"ל פה בעיר לבנה ביום ו' כ"ח לחדש סיון שנת הש"ג. f. 130v
Colophon: והשלמתיו בליל יום ג' כ"ה לאדר שנת רנ"ז לפרט האלף הששי פה בכפר קרמריא שבתחום עיר גלטא שכנגד עיר קושטנדינא. f. 152v
ff. 153v-171v
Title: Mesharet Mosheh
Title: משרת משה
Author: Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286- קלונימוס בן קלונימוס
ff. 172r-175v
Title: Sefer ha-tapuaḥ
Title: ספר התפוח
Author: Aristotle (ascribed to him) אריסטו (מיוחס לו)

In the Hebrew translation of Abraham ha-Levi Hasdai.

ff. 176r-176r
Title: Musare ha-pilosofim
Title: מוסרי הפילוסופים
Author: Ḥananiah ben Yitsḥaḳ חנין בן אסחאק

Contains only the first four chapters of the work, in the Hebrew translation of Yehudah Al-Harizi.

ff. 176v-181v
Title: Ruaḥ ḥen
Title: רוח חן

Ascribed variously, to Shemuel ibn Tibbon, Yehudah ibn Tibbon, and to Jacob Anatoli.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 181 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 151 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 116 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Irregular quiring.

Condition

Tidemarks at head and often on an entire leaf, without loss of text.

Stains on board cloth.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 47

Written lines: 24 47

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hand(s)

Byzantine (Karaite) semi-cursive scripts, unpunctuated, of the 16th century.

ff. 176r-181v
written by a different hand, probably of the end of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Ets Chayyim. Etc. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1306.'

History

Origin: 1543-1599 Byzantine Empire (Levana near Constantinople, currently Belgorod Dnestrovsky)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef Begi (?) and Shelomoh Begi (?): inscribed, folio 1r.

Eliyahu ben Yitsḥaḳ Yafet: inscribed, folio 2r.

Fischl Hirsch: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 April 1875: 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=Or_1306 (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. 918.

Funding of Cataloguing

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