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Or 2858

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Or 2858
Title:
Mikhlol yofi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
204 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1415
End Date:
1449
Date Range:
1415-1449
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
R. N. Rabinowitz
Yitsḥaḳ
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2858

Mikhlol yofi

Contents

An ethical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-204v
Title: Mikhlal yofi
Title: מכלל יופי

An ethical treatise on Talmudical traditions and allegories. The table of contents is given of folio 4v.

Colophon: נשלם ש"ל ית' בי"א יום לחדש שבט שנת ה' אלפי[ם] ומאה וע"ד ליצירה. f. 204r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 204 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each, marked with catchwords on the last page of a quire in the latter part of the manuscript. Leaves on guards.

Condition

Damp entry at lower corner in the first half of the manuscript. Some dark tidemarks.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 34

Written lines: 33 34

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page in the earlier part, and at the end of quires in the latter part.

Headings and initial words in square characters.

The contents of folios 53v-54v crossed out and duplicated on folio 55r sqq.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century. Yitsḥaḳ: his name marked off on folio 128v, 194v, 195v.

ff. 1-54
and
ff. 55-204
written in two different Oriental semi-cursive scripts.

Additions:

Scribblings, folio 204v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mikhlol Yofi. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2858.'

History

Origin: 1415-1449 Palestine?

Provenance and Acquisition

R. N. Rabinowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 18 April 1885: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

1885-04-18

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_2858 (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. 1102.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL