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Add MS 18970

Record Id:
032-003367030
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Add MS 18970
Title:
Collection of grammatical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
125 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18970

Collection of grammatical writings

Contents

Grammatical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-106r
Title: Petaḥ devarai
Title: פתח דברי

Numerous initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in red and mauve.

ff. 106v-125v
Title: Luḥot ha-po῾el
Title: לוחות הפועל

Numerous initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in red and mauve.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 125 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90 × 60 mm.
Foliation:

125 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

17 quires: i-ix8 (folios 1-72), x6 (folios 73-78), xi-xiii8 (folios 79-102), xiv4 (folios 103-105, 105a), xv-xvi8 (folios 106-121), xvii4 (folios 122-125). No catchwords.

Condition

Stained.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Last word of a quire repeated at the beginning of a new quire.

Marginal notes.

Unfoliated blank leaf after folio 105.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Hebrew Grammar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 18,970.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef Tsaror: inscribed with his name (folio 104v).

Shemu᾿el Dafno: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).

Don Meir ben Ban: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).

Don Avraham ben Ban: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).

1852-06-12

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 June 1852: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18970 (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. 964.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL