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Or 5473

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032-003314075
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Or 5473
Title:
Collection of philosophical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
47 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5473 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Eleazar ben Eliezer
S. Raffalovich
אלעזר בן אליעזר
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5473

Collection of philosophical works

Contents

A collection of philosophical writings.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-3v
Title: Tafsir
Title: תפסיר

The latter protion of a Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Ten Commandments, ascribed to Eleazar ben Eliezer.

Author: Eleazar ben Eliezer אלעזר בן אליעזר
ff. 5r-6v
Title: Ḳetsat zaḥul ve-laḥtsan
Title: קצת זחול ולחצאן

Written in a different hand.

ff. 4r-47v
Title: Ḥibur be-astrologiyah uve-filosofiyah
Title: חבור באסטרולוגיה ובפילוסופיה

A compilation in an Arabic dialect embodying the teaching of various authorities on astrological. philosophical, and other subjects, the work chiefly relying on Meir ben Isaac Aldabi's Sefer shevile emunah.

The scribe broke off near the beginning of folio 5r, the compilation continuing on folio 8r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 47 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 118 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

47 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Damp entry at foot, mostly repaired/infilled.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 28

Written lines: 23 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Some marginal notes.

Calculations, folio 7r, 42r-43v.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African?) semi cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Extracts on Astronomy, Etc. Arabic in Hebrew Characters. Brit. Mus. Or. 5473.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Africa, N.?

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r: a bookseller's inscription.

1898-12-13

S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 December 1898, folio [49v].

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_5473 (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. 1122.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL