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Or 2590

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Or 2590
Title:
Imre noʾash by Salomon da Piera
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
137 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Piera, Salomon, poet and writer, 1342-1418
Piera, Salomon, poet and writer, 1342-1418
Shemu᾿el Malgori
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2590

Imre noʾash by Salomon da Piera

Contents

Grammatical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-137v
Title: Imre noʾash
Title: אמרי נואש

See Tauber 'Sefer imre noʾash' 1924, pp. 62-66, 139-141.

The manuscript contains only two first parts of Da Piera's work, beginning on folio 11r and 109r respectively, and preceded by a large portion of a composition in poetical prose (folios 1r to 9v), incomplete at the beginning.

Author: Da Piera, Salomon, 1342-1418 דפירה, שלמה בן משלם
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 76, 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. 972..

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 137 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

137 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on individual guards.

Condition

Edges show damp and mould damage.

Tidemarks at front.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

Erasures.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Oriental) semi-cursive scripts of the 17th century.

Additions:

Folio 137r-137v contains a letter addressed to Shemu᾿el Kohen.

Some lists, including a list of names, are given on folios 10r-10v, and 108r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Imre No'ash. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2590.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Africa, N. (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemu᾿el Malgori: inscribed, folio 11r.

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchsed from him by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: 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_2590 (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. 973.

Bibliography

    Tauber, A. 'Sefer imre noʾash li-Shelomo de Piera.' Kiryat Sefer 1 (1924): 62-66.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL