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Add MS 26925

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032-003367023
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Add MS 26925
Title:
Collection of philosophical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
107 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1463
End Date:
1463
Date Range:
1463
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Avraham
Catalan, Gerson ben Solomon, 1200-1299
Catalan, Gerson ben Solomon, 1200-1299
Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, 1225-1295
Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, 1225-1295
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26925

Collection of philosophical writings

Contents

Philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-6v
Title: Igeret ha-ṿikuaḥ
Title: אגרת הוכוח

Defective at the end.

Author: Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, 1225-1295 פלקירא, שם טוב בן יוסף אבן
ff. 7r-30v
Title: Reshit ḥokhmah
Title: ראשית חכמה
Author: Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, 1225-1295 פלקירא, שם טוב בן יוסף אבן

Imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 30v-50v
Title: Sefer ha-ma῾alot
Title: ספר המעלות
Author: Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, 1225-1295 פלקירא, שם טוב בן יוסף אבן

Preceded by the author's poem.

Colophon: סיום הספר בריך רחמנא דסייעי ובריך מאן דקרי ביה א"ס הנני צעיר כת האמונה כתבתי זה הראשית חכמה וספר המעלות אשר חבר החכם השלם שם טוב ב"ר יוסף אבן פלקריא הפילוסוף האלהי ז"ל נ"ע ביום ג' ר"ח אלול אברך ל" הדר לעת הזאת פה עיר קרימה בלונברדיאה נאום הקטן אברהם בכאמ"ר יוסףיזי"י לאלף הששי. f. 50v
ff. 51r-107v
Title: Sha῾ar ha-shamayim
Title: שער השמים
Author: Gershom ben Shelomoh גרשום בן שלמה

Additions and notes in the margin (e.g., folio 105v, a note by Joseph Almanzi).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 107 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

107 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Quires of 3 to 6 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Lacuna after folio 6.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 43 44

Written lines: 43 44

Uniform layout.

Visible ink and hard-point ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

The last word of a folio is repeated at the beginning of the next.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive and cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Avraham: the name marked off and decorated in pen and ink on folio 32v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Shemtob Ibn Palquera. Iggereth Hav-Vikuach. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,925.'

History

Origin: 1463 Italy, N. (Crema)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 33: 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 (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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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. 914.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL