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Or 5396

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032-003314062
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Or 5396
Title:
Letters by Leone Modena
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
151 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5396 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1597
End Date:
1617
Date Range:
1597-1617
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
G. Luzzatto
Leone Modena
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5396

Letters by Leone Modena

Contents

A collections of letters.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-151v
Title: Igerot me-et Yehudah Aryeh mi-Modenah
Title: אגרות מאת יהודה אריה ממודינא

A volume of drafts of letters addressed to diverse persons by Leone Modena. Contains also personal notes and pieces written on various occasions.

See [Boksenboim_1984] 1-5.

Author: Modena, Leone מודנה, יהודה אריה בן יצחק

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 151 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

151 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

All leaves on guards.

Condition

Tidemark and softness to lower corner.

Usage stains and ink smears.

Slight worming.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 36

Written lines: 16 36

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Italian Latin and Hebrew cursive script of the 16th to 17th century. Leone Modena: autographs (for the most part).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Letters of Leo di Modena. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5396.'

History

Origin: ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

G. Luzzatto: purchased by the British Museum from him on 15 June 1898: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_5396 (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. 1110.

Bibliography

    [Boksenboim_1984] מודנה, יהודה אריה בן יצחק. 'אגרות רבי יהודה אריה ממודינא / ההדיר על-פי כתבי-יד יעקב בוקסנבוים.'תל אביב: בית-הספר למדעי היהדות ע"ש חיים רוזנברג, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, 1984.

Funding of Cataloguing

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