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Add MS 11416
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- Sefer Ginat egoz by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
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- Extent:
- 206 folios
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
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Add MS 11416
Sefer Ginat egoz by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
Contents
Summary of Contents: Sefer Ginat egoz, with additional comments and notes of .Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-206vTitle: Ginat egozTitle: גנת אגוזNote (mostly in Latin, but occasionally in Hebrew) are found in numerous places in the margin.
Folios 11-1 (formerly marked 196-206) contain a number of Latin pieces in the following order: 1. a Latin translation of Sefer yetsirah (folios 11v-8r); 2. a letter headed 'Joannes Tritemius Abbas Spanhamensis Arnoldo Bostio. S. et sincera in Dno caritatem' and dated 1499 (folios 7r-5v); 3. a letter headed 'Ad Episcopu Verdunen in Gallijs' (folios 4v-3v); 4. an extract headed 'Ex Epistola Italici', folio 3r; 5. two extracts from Reuchlin's 'De arte cabalistica' (folios 2r-1v) - the Hebrew words are represented by blanks in these extracts.
Folio 12r contains a note in French, signed R (i.e., according to a pencil note below, A. A. Renouard of Paris), stating that the Latin pieces nos. 1-4 and the entry on folio 206r are in the handwriting of Johannes Reuchlin, and that no. 5 is rather later.
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Physical Description
Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 206 foliosDimensions (leaf): 280 × 210 mm.Dimensions (written): 190 × 120 mm.Foliation:206 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Foliated several times: in 1576 the leaves now numbered 13-205 were marked 1-192 (number 137 is repeated); in the middle of the lower margin is a later foliation in red ink; much later is the enumeration 1-206 counted backwards, on account of the Latin portions at the beginning and at the end.
Collation
Quires of mostly 16 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end (only partly preserved).
Condition
Water-damaged (especially the upper margin).
Slightly worm-eaten towards the gutter.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ruled lines: 31 35
Written lines: 31 35
Uniform layout in the Hebrew section. In folios 13-205 the pages are divided into two columns.
Visible hard-point and ink ruling.
Initial words in larger characters.
Numerous maniculae and additional notes in the margins.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive and Latin cursive scripts of the 16th century.
ff. 1r-12vandff. 206r-206vwritten in Latin cursive script of the 16th century.Additions:An entry on the earliest foliation of the manuscript, folio 12v.
Binding
BM/BL in-house. Boxed.
Spine: 'Joseph Gikatilla. Ginnath Eghoz. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 11416.'
History
Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Johannes Reuchlin: inscribed in an entry, showing that the manuscript was presented to him in 1495 by Johannes Dalburg, bishop of Worms: folio 206r.
Otto Gereon von Gutmann of Sobernheim, archbishop of Cyrene: inscribed, 1624: folios 205r-205v; his coat of arms, folio 205v. A seal is affixed to the left-hand lower corner on folio 205r, and also on the lower margin of folio 13r.
1838-07-26
Purchased by the British Museum at Evans' sale, lot 1134, on 26 July 1838: inscribed, back flyleaf (iv)v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11416 (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. 740.Bibliography
[Ginat_Egoz_1989] ג׳קטליא, יוסף, and Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. 'Sefer Ginat Egoz / Le-Rabi Yosef G’iḳaṭilya.'ירושלים: ישיבת ״החיים והשלום״ 1989, Yerushalayim, 1989.Funding of Cataloguing
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