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Or 1425

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Or 1425
Title:
Ma῾aseh efod by Profiat Duran
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
116 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1425 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Duran, Profiat, 1350?-1415?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079837532,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/13522985
Duran, Profiat, 1350?-1415?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079837532,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/13522985
Fischl Hirsch
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1425

Ma῾aseh efod by Profiat Duran

Contents

Grammatical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-116v
Title: Ma῾aseh efod
Title: מעשה אפד

There are biblical passages at the foot of the page, with special references to the passage last quoted in the text on the same page.

Folios 114 and 115 contain additional short pieces. Folio 116r has an enumeration of Hebrew conjugations written out, starting with binyan pa῾al.

Author: Duran, Profiat, 1350-1415 דוראן, פרופיאט הלוי‏

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 116 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks at all four edges throughout and often over text area.

Slight ink runs in places.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Catchwords on most of the versos.

Maniculae, e.g., folio 34v, 35r.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th to 16 century.

ff. 1r-50v
and
ff. 51r-116v
written in two different but contemporary hands.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mahase Ephod. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1425.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

1877-01-12

Fischl Hirsch: purchased from him by the British Museum on 12 January 1877: 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_1425 (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. 970.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL