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Or 1488

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Or 1488
Title:
Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimhi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
305 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1488

Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimhi

Contents

Grammatical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-305v
Title: Sefer ha-shorashim
Title: ספר השרשים

Includes an appendix on the Aramaic words in the Hebrew Bible. Folio 1 opens with a preface. The epilogue, beginning on folio 300v, precedes the Aramaic section in the manuscript.

The names of the biblical works referred to in the text are written in the margin in Sefardi cursive.

Author: Kimhi, David, 1160-1235 קמחי, דוד בן יוסף

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 305 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, the first two and the last two of which are marked by catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

First leaves mutilated.

Lower margins cut off in subsequent parts, with no loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling and pricking.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Kimchi. Hebrew Dictionary. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1488.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_1488 (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. 961.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL