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Or 13261

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Or 13261
Title:
Tsiyoni by Menaḥem Ẓiyyoni
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
57 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ẓiyyoni, Menaḥem, 1340-1410
Ẓiyyoni, Menaḥem, 1340-1410
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Or 13261

Tsiyoni by Menaḥem Ẓiyyoni

Contents

A kabbalistic commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-57v
Title: Tsiyoni
Title: ציוני

Incomplete, reaches the middle of pericope Ha᾿azinu only. An index of subjects is prefixed (folios 1r-6v).

Author: Menaḥem Ẓiyyoni ציוני, מנחם בן מאיר

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 57 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

57 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Damp at edges, occasional tidemarks, mould darkening.

Usage stains.

Minor worming.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 67

Written lines: 67

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling visible.

Larger square initial words, at times pen and ink decorated (e.g. folio 27v).

Catchwords on every verso.

Marginal notes throughout. Additional commentaries in the margin or in the added column.

Running titles.

Original Hebrew foliation.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold-tooled.

Spine: 'Sefer Siyyuni. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 13,261.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

1970

Acquired by the British Museum in 1970.

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_13261 (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. 161., vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL