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Or 4685

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Or 4685
Title:
Me᾿ir ῾ene ῾avarim by Meir ben Moses Kornik
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
334 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4685 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
German
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1814
End Date:
1816
Date Range:
1814-1816
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Joseph Heinemann
Meir ben Moses Kornik
Ḳorniḳ, Meʼir ben Mosheh, d 1826,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000043414001,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31522393
Ḳorniḳ, Meʼir ben Mosheh, d 1826,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000043414001,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31522393
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4685

Me᾿ir ῾ene ῾avarim by Meir ben Moses Kornik

Contents

Astronomical work.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish, German

ff. 1r-334v
Author: Kornik, Meir ben Moses קורניק, מאיר
Title: Me᾿ir ῾ene ῾avarim
Title: מאיר עיני עברים

A treatise on Jewish calendar, with comparative tables of the Jewish and Christian eras from5343-6000 (i.e. 1583-2240), partly in Yiddish.

The work is divided into three parts; the current volume contains an introduction and part 1, Shenot olam (folio 14r), i.e. the comparative calendrical tables.

Folio 12v contains rhymed pieces in praise of the treatise, by Mordekhai Rokh.

Filiation: Uniform with Or 4686.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 334 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

334 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on gaurds.

Condition

Tidemarks at edges.

Foxing.

Usage stains and smeared ink.

Slight signs of ink corrosion.

Binding slightly rubbed at edges, corners, and joints.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling with a hard-point, and vertical red pencil lines between folios 2-13.

Running title between folios 2-13, a pastedown from e printed book.

Astronomical tables from folio 14 to the end.

Marginal additions and notes.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square and cursive, and Latin script of the 19th century. Meir ben Moses Kornik: an autograph.

Additions:

End flyleaf: various notes and scribblings in Yiddish, partly crossed out.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Treatise on the Calendar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4685.'

History

Origin: 1814-1816 Germany (Glogau?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1893-06-06

Joseph Heinemann: purchased from him by the British Museum on 06 June 1893: inscribed, folio [336v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4685 (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. 154., vol. IV.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL