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Add MS 17057

Record Id:
032-003367056
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Add MS 17057
Title:
Collection of philosophical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
52 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17057 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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:
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Names:
Anatoli, Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson, 1194-1256
Anatoli, Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson, 1194-1256
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286-1328
Shemuel ibn Tibbon
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17057

Collection of philosophical writings

Contents

Philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-14r
Title: Mesharet Mosheh
Title: משרת משה

A commentary on More nevukhim of Maimonides. Contains only 6 chapters.

Author: Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir, 1286- קלונימוס בן קלונימוס
ff. 14v-26v
Title: Ruaḥ ḥen
Title: רוח חן
Author: Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli יעקב בן אבא מארי אנטולי

The text is variously attributed.

ff. 26v-52v
Title: Perush Mishnah (Avot)
Title: פרוש המשנה (אבות)
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

In the Hebrew translation of Shemuel ibn Tibbon, preceded by his introduction. Extends only up to chapter 4, mishnah 2.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 52 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

52 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 older plus 2 modern unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 modern paperv flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Meshareth Mosheh, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 17,057.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 52v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folios 14r, 52r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), pp. 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

1847-10-23

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought by the British Museum from him at Macdonald's sale, lot 174, on 23 October 1847: 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17057 (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. 913.

Funding of Cataloguing

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