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Or 1389

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Or 1389
Title:
Ethical excerpts from the Talmud and various midrashim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
165 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Berakhiah
Dominico Irosolomitano
Fischl Hirsch
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Imanu᾿el
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Or 1389

Ethical excerpts from the Talmud and various midrashim

Contents

Ethical excerpts from the Talmud and various midrashim.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-165v
Title: Yalḳut divre musar ṿe-agadah
Title: ילקוט דברי מוסר ואגדה

Divided into 111 sections. Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

See further Marmorstein, JQR 19, p. 17.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 165 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

165 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 8 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.

Condition

Slight dirt entry. Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking in outer margins and complete hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable,

Many marginal additions and notes.

Initial words and titles in square characters.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Berakhiah (?): marked off on folios 25r, 133r.

Binding

BM in-house. Ivory vellum spine.

Spine: 'Collectanea on Moral Precepts. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1389.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Dominico Irosolomitano (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1593 (folio 165v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Giovanni Domenico Carretto (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1621 (folio 164v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

A record of sale (between Brenda the widow of Mordekhai of [San] Miniato and Yitsḥaḳ of Pambak (?), witnessed by Perets ben Eliyahu Tsarfati): folio 165v.

Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Imanu᾿el: inscribed, folio 165v.

1876-03-08

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 March 1876: inscribed (folio [166v]).

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_1389 (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. 153., vol. IV (supplement)
    Marmorstein, A. 'Some Hitherto Unknown Jewish Scholars of Angevin England', Jewish Quarterly Review 19 (1928): 17-36.

Bibliography

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

Funding of Cataloguing

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