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Add MS 26899
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- 032-003314379
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- Add MS 26899
- Title:
- Collection of astronomical and philosophical works
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 97 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26899 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1316
- End Date:
- 1316
- Date Range:
- 1316
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26899
Collection of astronomical and philosophical works
Contents
Various astronomical and philosophical works.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 2v-66rTitle: Sefer ha-῾iburTitle: ספר העבורReferences
Sandman, Israel M. 'The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy', in: Texts in Transit in the medieval Mediterranean/ eds. Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 198-221.ff. 66v-85rTitle: Ḳitsur ḥovot ha-levavotTitle: קצור חובות הלבבותIn the Hebrew translation of Yehudah ibn Tibon. Includes the letter of the translatot to Asher ben Shelomoh of Lunel at the beginning.
Filiation: Cf. the contents of [BL] Harley MS 5686, part V, marginal texts.ff. 85v-97vTitle: Tiḳun midot ha-nefeshTitle: תקון מדות הנפשIn the Hebrew translation of Yehudah ibn Tibon.
Colophon: נשלם הספר הזה על ידי משה בכמ"ר יהודהזלה"ה בר' בנימן לעי"ץ בליל ה' בד' ימים לחודש מרחשון שנת ה' אלפים וע"ז ליצירה היא שנת אלף ומאתים ומ'ט' לחורבן הבית הקדוש שיבנה במהרה בימינו בעיר אוזמו. השם יזכנו ללמוד וללמד וכו'. f. 97rFiliation: Cf. [BL] Or 2396, part I.Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 97 foliosDimensions (leaf): 280 × 200 mm.Dimensions (written): 210 × 135 mm.Foliation:97 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.
Collation
Quires of 10 leaves each (except the last quire with 8 leaves only), marked by catchwords at the end.
Condition
First and last few leaves dark and stained.
Minor stain at foot.
Usage stains and spills.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 29
Written lines: 29
Uniform layout.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Square initial words.
Hair-side and flesh-side of folios distinguishable.
Few marginal notes.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Mosheh ben Yehudah ben Binyamin: inscribed in the colophon, folio 97r, and marked off on folio 16v.
Binding
Post-1600. Brown leather. Boxed.
Spine: 'Brit. Mus. Additional 26,899.'
History
Origin: 1316 Italy (Osimo)Provenance and Acquisition
Hippolite of Ferrara (active 1590-1609, in Cremona?): inscribed 'Fr. Hipp. Ferr. vidit 1601' (folio 97v), see [Popper_1969] 18-19, 93.
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1610' (folio 97v), see [Popper_1969] 85-87.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 8; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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=Add_MS_26899 (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. 1063.Bibliography
[BL] BL = British Library shelfmark[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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