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Collection of halakhical works
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Oriental Manuscripts
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355 folios
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Start Date:
1392
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1392
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1392
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Ele῾azar bar Natan Lieberman
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
Mosheh
Shim῾on bar Shemu᾿el
Ya῾aḳov bar Mosheh
mi-Tsurikh, Mosheh, 1310-1385
mi-Tsurikh, Mosheh, 1310-1385
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Add MS 18684

Collection of halakhical works

Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of halakhical works: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan of Isaac of Corbeil, with the additions of Moses of Zürich, and Mivḥar ha-peninim by Solomon ibn Gabirol with an anonymous commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-321v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
Title: ספר מצות קטן

There is a treatise on the calendar on folios 47v-52r containing a movable chart, Luaḥ ha-zahav (a golden table) (folio 52r).

Author: Isaac ben Joseph, of Corbeil, active 13th century יצחק בן יוסף, מקורביל
Author: Mosheh, mi-Tsurikh, 1310-1385 מצוריך, ‏משה
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 26982 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 515).

14 marginal drawings in ink next to the catchwords. f. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 53v, 61v, 69v, 77v, 85v, 93v, 101v, 109v, 117v

Inhabited initial-word panel in brown ink and red. f. 12r

Initial letters with gold.

ff. 12r-12v

ff. 322r-353v
Title: Mivḥar ha-peninim
Title: מבחר הפנינים
Author: Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century אבן גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה, 1021-1058
Colophon: אני יעקב בר' משההסופר./ כתבתי זה הספר. להח"ר שמעון (בר' שמואל)/ ה' יענהו ממעון, וישלח משיח בימינו,/ ותן לנו חלקנו (טוב בג"ע) / בשנת קנ"ב לפרט: לאלף / השישי (נשרט). f. 321r
Colophon: נשלם זה ספר החכמים שעשו החכמים הפילוסופים והעתיקו ר' שלמה אבן טפו מלשון ערבי ללשון הקודש ושם בנו של [ר' שלמה] ר' משה אבן טפו ממרשיילא. והחבר ר' שמשון מאניי שהיה ממדינת קונפיינא יסד ועשה מחכמת לבו ומרוב שכלו והבנתו כל זה הפירוש של זה הספר ששמו מחבר הפנינים. \ בחר חכמה עלי עושר זכור ואל תשכח דבר מזכיר ומזהיר. ודע כי לא היה סכל כמשכיל. ולא יהי אנוש נמהר כמהיר. ספרך יהי תמיד כבן יקר בעין רואיך. בו תמצא רע מכסה סוד. ולקח טוב יספק לך וימצאך. סליק. f. 353r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 355 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 255 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235/230 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

353 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); folios 354-355 are paper flyleaves.

There is foliation in Hebrew from folio 12 to folio 321 with a break between folio 226 (according to the Hebrew foliation folio 217) and folio 227 (according to the Hebrew foliation folio 264), however, there is no lacuna in the text.

Collation

46 quires: i8 (folios 1-8), ii8 (folios 9-16), iii8 (folios 17-24), iv8 (folios 25-32), v8 (folios 33-40), vi8-1 (folios 41-47), vii4 (folios 48-51), viii2 (folios 52-53), ix8 (folios 54-61), x8 (folios 62-69), xi8 (folios 70-77), xii8 (folios 78-85), xiii8 (folios 86-93), xiv8 (folios 94-101), xv8 (folios 102-109), xvi8 (folios 110-117), xvii8 (folios 118-125), xviii8 (folios 126-133), xix8 (folios 134-141), xx6 (folios 142-147), xxi8 (folios 148-155), xxii8 (folios 156-163), xxiii8 (folios 164-171), xxiv8 (folios 172-179), xxv8 (folios 180-187), xxvi8 (folios 188-195), xxvii8 (folios 196-203), xxviii8 (folios 204-211), xxix8 (folios 212-219), xxx8 (folios 220-227), xxxi8 (folios 228-235), xxxii8 (folios 236-243), xxxiii8 (folios 244-251), xxxiv6 (folios 252-257), xxxv8 (folios 258-265), xxxvi8 (folios 266-273), xxxvii8 (folios 274-281), xxxviii8 (folios 282-289), xxxix8 (folios 290-297), xl8 (folios 298-305), xli8 (folios 306-313), xlii8 (folios 314-321), xliii8 (folios 322-329), xliv8 (folios 330-337), xlv8 (folios 338-345), xlvi8 (folios 346-353). Marked with catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a plummet (each bifolium on both sides).

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios indistinguishable. Fine parchment.

Last line written within the ruling.

Arranged in two columns between folios 322r-353r.

Catchwords at the end of quires.

Initial words written in large characters.

Occasional infralinear vocalization.

Maniculae on folios 87v, 88r, 281r.

Watermark, folio 355, of a crown with a horn, similar to [Briquet_1968] 5073 (dated 1569-1570 to Remiremont).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 14th century. Ya῾aḳov bar Mosheh: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 5152 (1392) (folio 321r), mentioned in a marginal note (folio 353r). Mosheh: inscribed with his name (folio 353r).

ff. 1r-47v
and
ff. 53r-123r
written by the first scribe, Ya῾aḳov bar Mosheh, and
ff. 48r-52v
and
ff. 123r-321v
written by the second scribe, Mosheh. The marginal notes are partly contemporary to the main text and partly in two or three different and rather later hands.

Additions:

Preface on folio 1v, an index on folio 353v (col. 1).

Notes on the expulsions and persecutions of Jews (e.g. Spain, Portugal, Austria) (folios 352v-353r).

A Yiddish note (folio 354r).

Binding

Post-1600: leather binding that contained clasps. Boxed.

Spine title: 'Isaac of Corbeil. Sepher Mitsvoth Katan. Ibn Gabirol. Mibhar Happenninim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,684.'

History

Origin: 1392 Germany, W. (Nuremberg?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Formula of marriage contract 'according to the custom of the Ron communities', ('Ron' refers to Regensburg, Würzburg, Nuremberg), 'in 5149 (1389) in the town of Nuremberg', 'R. Mordekhai bar Yosef, the groom', 'Sherlin bat R. Ya῾aḳov ha-Leṿi' (folio 87v).

Shim῾on bar Shemu᾿el: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 5152 (1392) (folio 321r).

Ele῾azar bar Natan Lieberman: record of his death, 1540 (folio 352v).

Records of birth of children and death, 15th and 16th centuries (folios 352v-353r).

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 24 May 1851: 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

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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. 514.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Briquet_1968] Charles Moïse Briquet. 'Les Filigranes. Dictionnaire Historique Des Marques Du Papier Des Leur Apparition Vers 1282 Jusqu’en 1600. A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material Contributed by a Number of Scholars. Edited by Allan Stevenson. (The New Briquet. Jubilee Edition.).'Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL