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Or 2396

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Or 2396
Title:
Collection of ethical writings
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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160 folios
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1382
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1382
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Names:
1382
Abraham ben Hasdai
Anav, Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin, fl 13th century
Anav, Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin, fl 13th century
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Avraham ben Mosheh Yashar
Camillo Jaghel
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Isaac del Vechio
Salomon del Vechio
Shabtai ha-Rofe
Yehudah Harizi
Yehudah ibn Tibbon
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2396

Collection of ethical writings

Contents

Ethical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-15v
Title: Sefer Tikun midot ha-nefesh
Title: ספר תיקון מדות הנפש

In the Hebrew translation of Yehudah ibn Tibbon.

Author: Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century אבן גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 26917 and [BL] Add MS 26899.

Decorated initial words, in colours on 7 folios.

ff. 2r-5r

f. 4v, 6r, 15v 3 charts, in brown ink.

ff. 16r-27v
Title: Sefer Yesod ha-yir᾿ah
Title: ספר יסוד היראה
Filiation: Cf. [Neubauer_1994] 1925.
ff. 28r-108v
Title: Sefer Ma῾alot ha-midot
Title: ספר מעלות המדות
Author: Anav, Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin, active 13th century יחיאל בן יקותיאל, הרופא
Colophon: על ידי אברהם בכאמ"ר משהיש"ר פה בכרך קנייא כ"ג ימים לחודש אדר שנת קמ"ב לפרט האלף חמישי כתבתיו למר שבתי הרופא יש"ר בכמ"ר מנחם הרופא זלה"ה. f. 108v

Maniculae. f. 57r, 82v, 83v

ff. 109r-121v
Title: Mivḥar ha-peninim
Title: מבחר הפנינים
Filiation: Cf. London, BL, Add MS 18266.

1 decorated initial word in ink. f. 112v

ff. 122r-135v
Title: Sefer Sod ha-sodot
Title: ספר סוד הסודות

Translated into Hebrew from the Arabic version of Yahya ibn al-Batrik.

1 chart, in brown ink. f. 126v

ff. 136r-139r
Title: Igeret ῾ale ha-Ishma῾eli
Title: אגרת עלי הישמעאלי

An epistle on ethics ascribed to Aristotle, translated into Hebrew by Yehudah Harizi from the Arabic version of ῾Ali ibn Rudwan, with additions by the latter.

ff. 139v-142r
Title: Sefer ha-tapuaḥ
Title: ספר התפוח

Ascribed to Aristotle, in the Hebrew translation of Abraham ben Hasdai.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Harley MS 340.
Author: Aristotle אריסטו
ff. 142v-159v
Title: Musare ha-pilosofim
Title: מוסרי הפילוסופים
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809-873 חנין בן אסחאק

Translated from the Arabic by Yehudah Harizi. Incomplete at the end.

1 drawing in ink. f. 60r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 160 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

160 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

18 quires: i10-1 (folios 2-10), ii10-1 (folios 11-20), iii6 (folios 21-26), iv10-1 (folios 27-36), v-xi10 (folios 37-106), xii2 (folios 107-108), xiii-xvii10 (folios 109-158), xviii2 (folios 159-160).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 21 32

Written lines: 21 32

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Censor's erasures, words, sentences crossed out (e.g., 31r, 72v, 57v, 149r).

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century. Avraham ben Mosheh Yashar: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 13 Adar [5]142 [1382] (folio 108v). 'Avraham' is decorated on folios 14r, 35r.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Tikkun Middoth Han-Nefesh. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2396.'

History

Origin: 1382 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Shabtai ha-Rofe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 13 Adar [5]142 [1382] (folio 108v).

Isaac del Vechio: inscribed with his name (back flyleaf (i)v), accompanied with a poem (composed by Isaac himself?) in Italian entitled 'L'huomo sensuale'.

Salomon del Vechio: inscribed with his name (folio 1r).

Italian poems by Isaac del Vechio (?) (folios 1v, 161v).

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 159v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2396 (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. 867.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL