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Add MS 16390 A

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032-003314378
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Add MS 16390 A
Title:
Collection of masoretic and philosophical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
59 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:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 16390 A

Collection of masoretic and philosophical works

Contents

Masoretic and philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-52v
Title: Sheva῾ shemot
Title: שבע שמות

A systematic enumeration of the occurences of Divine Names in the Hebrew canon, accompanied by masoretic remarks, and followed by a section on the Targumic equivalents of the sacred names.

ff. 53r-59v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: Perush Mishnah
Title: פרוש משנה

A fragment of commentary on Pirḳe avot, containing only the introduction of the translator and portions of the Shemonah peraḳim.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 59 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140/135 × 80/90 mm.
Foliation:

59 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end). The back flyleaves are displayed in the digital surrogate of Add MS 16390 B as front flyleaves (since in the latter the foliation runs from left to right). Structure of the entire codex (Add MS 16390 A + Add MS 16390 B): iii + 59 + 130 + ix.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks at foredge and lower corner.

Worming at ends.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 31

Written lines: 20 31

Catchwords on every verso.

Square initial words.

Vertical pencil ruling.

Red highlights in the earlier part of the manuscript.

Red edges.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 16th century.

ff. 2r-52v
written in Ashkenazi cursive script and
ff. 53r-59v
in Italian semi-cursive script, both more or less contemporary.

Binding

Bound together with Add MS 16390 B.

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Sefer Shebha Shemot, Etc. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 16,390.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 30 November 1846: inscribed, flyleaf (v)v (for this leaf, see Add MS 16390 B).

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=Add_MS_16390_A (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. 1057.

Funding of Cataloguing

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