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Or 4686

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Or 4686
Title:
Me᾿ir ῾ene ῾ivrim by Meir ben Moses Kornik
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
279 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4686 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1816
End Date:
1816
Date Range:
1816
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
J. Heinemann
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 4686

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

Contents

A treatise on the Jewish calendar.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-279v
Title: Me᾿ir ῾ene ῾ivrim
Title: מאיר עיני עברים

Volume 2 of a treatise on the Jewish calendar, with comparative tables of the Jewish and Christian eras from 5343-6000 (1583-2240), by Meir ben Moses, chorister at Great Glogau. Autograph.

Author: Kornik, Meir ben Moses קורניק, מאיר
Filiation: Cf. Or 4685 for volume 1 of the treatise.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 279 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

279 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains. Darkening paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36 40

Written lines: 36 40

Uniform layout.

Initial words in large square characters.

Catchwords on every verso of folios with text.

Numerous calendrical tabels and diagrams.

Folio 1 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Additions:

Folio 277-279 contain official approvals for the printing of the treatise in Berlin (printed).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Treatise on the Calendar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4686.'

History

Origin: 1816 Glogau (Germany)

Provenance and Acquisition

1893-06-06

J. Heinemann: purchased from him by the British Museum on 06 June 1893: inscribed, folio [281v].

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_4686 (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 (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL