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Or 2860

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032-003314046
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Or 2860
Title:
Sefer Or Zaru῾a of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (vol. 2)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
216 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2860 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham Segre
Bart[olomeo] Rocca di Praterino
Isaac ben Moses, 1200-1270
Isaac ben Moses, 1200-1270
R. N. Rabinowitz
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2860

Sefer Or Zaru῾a of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (vol. 2)

Contents

Volume 2 of the Sefer Or Zaru῾a of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-216v
Title: Sefer Or zaruʻa
Title: ספר אור זרוע
Author: Isaac ben Moses, of Vienna יצחק בן משה, מוינה

Folio 1r contains a title and a table of contents. The main headings indicated on folio 1r are: Sanhedrin, folio 2r; ῾Avodah zarah, folio 32v; Ḥalah, folio 84v; Nidah, folio 100r; Shevu῾ot, folio 125r, Kila᾿im, folio 132r; ῾Aralah, folio 140v; Hilkhot ḥodesh, folio 144r; Hilkhot seḥorah, folio 145v; Berakhot, folio 147r.

Filiation: Cf. volume 1 of this manuscript, Or 2859, 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. 530..

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 216 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 900 × 335 mm.
Dimensions (written): 700 × 300 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 47

Written lines: 46

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and ruling in pencil, page by page.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable.

Last line written within ruling.

Initial words in larger semi-cursive script.

Hebrew foliation in a later hand in the upper left-hand corner of each recto.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaac ben Moses. Or Zaru'a Hag-Gadol. Hebrew. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2860.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Germany(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

A note of Bart[olomeo] Rocca di Praterino, giving permission to Avraham Segre to use the book according to his will: folio 216r.

1885-04-18

R. N. Rabinowitz: purchased from him by the British Library on 18 April 1885: inscribed, folio [217v].

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_2860 (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. 531.

Funding of Cataloguing

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