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Or 5977

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Or 5977
Title:
Rav pe῾alim by Joseph Zarka
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
370 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1483
Date Range:
1483
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CE
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Names:
Camillo Jaghel
E. Desmond
Luigi da Bologna
Renato da Modena
Zarḳa, Yosef ben Yehudah,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308277947
Zarḳa, Yosef ben Yehudah,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308277947
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Or 5977

Rav pe῾alim by Joseph Zarka

Contents

Grammatical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-370v
Title: Rav pe῾alim
Title: רב פעלים

Part one of the work, preceded by a preface and a table of contents, begins on folio 5r, part two on folio 28r, part three on folio 140r, and part four on folio 313v.

The author's colophon is given on folio 364v, followed by the date of 1483 as the date of copying.

Ta῾ame eme"t and ta῾ame ha-mikra are given on folios 366r-367r, but no additional table of contents follows. There are some notes on grammar on folio 1r. Lists of verbal forms, followed by the ten pesuḳim quoted by Rada"ḳ are given on folios 3v-4r.

Author: Zarka, Joseph זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 370 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters. Simple decorative penwork above most of the titles.

Some marginal notes.

Catchowords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Sefardi and Italian semi-cursive scripts of the latter part of the 15th century.

Additions:

Folio 368v: a statement in Latin on the age of the manuscript, written in 1639.

Folios 368-370 are fragments of a Latin service book with musical notation, written on parchment in black and red ink.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Zark. Sefer Rab Po'alim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5977.'

History

Origin: 1483 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Inscriptions of former owners, folio 2r, with names partly erased.

Folio 1r: 'Costa a 18 feb 1639 [...].'

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 365v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Renato da Modena: inscribed with his name (folio 365v); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

Luigi da Bologna: inscribed with his name (folio 368v); see [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.

E. Desmond: purchsed from him by the British Museum on 30 March 1901: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5977 (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. 975.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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