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Add MS 18828

Record Id:
032-003367037
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Add MS 18828
Title:
Isaac of Corbeil's Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
140 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18828 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1343
End Date:
1343
Date Range:
1343
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
A. Löwy
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
Naftali bar Yehudah of Neumark
Yosef bar Mosheh ha-Leṿi
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Add MS 18828

Isaac of Corbeil's Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan

Contents

Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan of Isaac of Corbeil.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-140v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
Title: ספר מצות קטן

This recension differs largely from the text contained in Add. 18684 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 514), especially in the arrangement of its sections. It has only 252 sections instead of the 292 sections of the latter manuscript.

The author's preface is wanting.

The form of the geṭ is on folio 44r, dated 18 Iyar 5103, Münster.

The index to the different sections is at the end (folios 139-140), but is not complete.

Author: Isaac ben Joseph, of Corbeil, active 13th century יצחק בן יוסף, מקורביל

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 140 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 115/120 mm.
Foliation:

140 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated vellum flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

18 quires of 8 leaves each, except no. 13 with 10 leaves, and no. 17 with 2 leaves only.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 41 29

Written lines: 40 28

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a plummet.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios indistinguishable. Visible scraping.

Last line written inside the ruling.

Initial words given in larger square characters.

Catchwords and marginal notes mostly cut away.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 14th century.

ff. 1r-24v
and
ff. 25r-140v
written in two different, but contemporary hands.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaac of Corbeil. Sepher Mitsvoth Katon. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,828.'

History

Origin: 1343 Germany (Münster?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef bar Mosheh ha-Leṿi: inscribed (folio 140r).

Naftali bar Yehudah of Neumark: inscribed (folio 1r).

A. Löwy: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 January 1852: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1852-01-10

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_18828 (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. 511.

Funding of Cataloguing

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