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Add MS 18228

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032-003367050
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Add MS 18228
Title:
A kabbalistic work of Menahem Azariah da Fano
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
12 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
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Add MS 18228

A kabbalistic work of Menahem Azariah da Fano

Contents

A kabbalistic work of Menahem Azariah da Fano.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-12v
Title: Tefilot ṿe-seder teḳi῾ot le-yamim nora᾿im ῾im kaṿanot
Title: תפלות וסדר תקיעות לימים נוראים עם כונות
Author: Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620 מנחם עזריה, מפאנו

A treatise on the shofar blasts of Menahem Azariah da Fano, followed by kabbalistic notes on other portions of the services for the New Year's feast and the Day of Atonement.

On folio 11r begins a part dealing with the custom of 'tashlikh': "נוהגים באשכנז לילך ביום א' של ר"ה אחר תפלת המנחה אל הים".

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

12 folios (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 27 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 6 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Initial words in large characters, divine names in larger square characters.

Comments and notes in the margin, in small cursive and semi-cursive.

Folio 2 is a title page, with a printed (engraved) design.

Watermark of a crwoned cross within a coat of arms held by two griffins, with initials MR, folio [13] (first end flyleaf).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

Folio 1v: a short description of the manuscript in English.

Binding

Post-1600. Card with dark brown leather corners and spine.

Spine: 'Sod Hathekioth. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 18,228.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17h century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

1850-07-13

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 13 July 1850: 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_18228 (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. 844.

Funding of Cataloguing

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