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- Sefer Malmad ha-talmidim
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Add MS 15978
Sefer Malmad ha-talmidim
Contents
Summary of Contents: Sefer Malmad ha-talmidim, an ethico-philosophical discourse on the passages of the Pentateuch in the order of weekly pericopes by Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli.Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-252vTitle: Sefer Malmad ha-talmidimTitle: ספר מלמד התלמידיםColophon: נשלם ספר מלמד על ידי לי חיים בכמ"ר מיכאל ישר"ו בכ"ב ימים לחדש תמוז שנת קס"ד וכתבתיו לכבוד מ"ר בנימן ישר"ו בכמ"ר שמואל זצ"ל מ אנקונא. השם יזכהו להגות בו ובשאר ספרי הקודש הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות ויזכה הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו לראות ביאת הגואל ובניין אריאל וישועת יהודה וישראל. כן יאמר האל. וחלק המחוקק יהיה ספון עם מצדיקי הרבים ככוכבים לעולם ועד. חזק הכותב ואמיץ הקורא. f. 251rff. 2r-4vTitle: Table of contentsff. 5r-12rTitle: Introductionff. 12r-61vTitle: On Genesisff. 61v-115rTitle: On Exodusff. 115r-141vTitle: On Leviticusff. 141v-192vTitle: On Numbersff. 192v-251rTitle: On DeuteronomyReferences
Physical Description
Parchment codex of 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 252 foliosDimensions (leaf): 314 × 219 mm.Dimensions (written): 207 × 130 mm.Foliation:252 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Collation
25 quires: i11 (folios 2-12), ii-xxiv10 (folios 13-242), xxv9 (243-251).
Quires signed at the beginning and at the end with Hebrew letters.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 34
Written lines: 34
Catchwords (horizontal) on every verso.
Titles written in larger characters.
Headings on every page.
Complete ruling by hard-point (bifolium by bifolium on hair-side) and pricking (quire by quire, outer margin only) visible.
Occasional infralinear vocalization.
Frequently space left before last word, anticipating beginning of next word, truncated last letters, graphic filler at the end of line.
Last line written within the ruling.
Hand(s)
Italian (or Byzantine?) semi-cursive script of 15th century. Ḥayim ben Mikha᾿el: inscribed on folio 251r. His name occasionally marked off in the margin and in the middle of the line, e.g. folios 43v, 76r, 163r.
Additions:Folio 252 is a paper leaf, containing a homiletical note in Italian and a piece in Hebrew. Approximately 17th century.
Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine title: 'Midrash. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 15978.'
History
Origin: 1404 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Benyamin ben Shemu᾿el of Ancona: inscribed in the colophon, folio 251r.
Fra Mar. (Mon.?) Aurelio (-ius?): inscribed, folio 251r, with a date of 30 April 1634.
A record of sale in Italian, pasted on folio 1v, with a date of 25 April 1721.
Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 12 January 1877: 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15978 (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. 376.Bibliography
[Anatoli_1866] Anatoli, Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson. 'Malmad Ha-Talmidim.'Lyck: Im Selbstverlage des Vereins Mʼkize Nirdamim, 1866.Funding of Cataloguing
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