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Add MS 26914
Title:
Pesaḳim and Ḥidushim of Isaiah of Trani, the elder
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
231 folios
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Aless[andro] Scipione
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shelomoh ben Avraham
Trani, Isaiah ben Mali, called 'the Elder', scholar and Talmudist, c 1180-1250
Trani, Isaiah ben Mali, called 'the Elder', scholar and Talmudist, c 1180-1250
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Add MS 26914

Pesaḳim and Ḥidushim of Isaiah of Trani, the elder

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pesaḳim and Ḥidushim of Isaiah of Trani, the elder, on the treatises of Ḥulin, Halakhot ḳeṭanot , ῾Avodah zarah and Berakhot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-231v
Title: Pesaḳim
Title: פסקים
Author: Isaiah ben Mali di Trani (ca 1180-ca 1250) טרני, ישעיה בן מלי, הזקן די
Filiation: Cf. London BL Add MS 26293 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 519).

f. 211r Pen and ink decorated initial panel.

ff. 2v-98r
Title: Ḥulin
ff. 98r-158r
Title: ῾Avodah zarah
ff. 158r-200v
Title: Berakhot
ff. 200v-211r
Title: Hilkhot mezuzah
ff. 211r-219r
Title: Hilkhot tefilin
ff. 219r-231v
Title: Hilkhot tsitsit

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 231 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 186 mm.
Foliation:

231 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf prefixed to the original manuscript.

24 unfoliated blank leaves between fols. 97-98 (these are not displayed in the digital surrogate).

Collation

29 quires: 28 quires of 8 leaves each (folio 2-227), with the exception of no. 15 (of 10 leaves, folio 114-123), 1 quire of 4 leaves (folios 228-231).

Quires marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Imperfect.

Folio 97 mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Pen and ink decorated quire catchwords (e.g. 89v).

Chapter initials and numbers given in larger characters.

Some pen and ink ornamented headings (e.g. 90r, 98r, 144v).

Pen and ink ornamented border, folio 228v.

Several diagrams (e.g. a margin of 26v).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Additions:

Doodles, folio 230v-231r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaiah of Trani. Pesakim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,914.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh ben Avraham: inscribed, folio 1r.

Former owners' notes, folio 2r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1627 (folio 228r); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name (folio 228v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Aless[andro] Scipione, 1597: inscribed, folio 228v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 23; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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

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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. 520.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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