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Add MS 27121

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032-003368368
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Add MS 27121
Title:
Collection of poetical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
72 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1588
End Date:
1590
Date Range:
1588-1590
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Domenico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460
Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460
Ḥananiah ben Shelomoh Finzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27121

Collection of poetical writings

Contents

Poetical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-67v
Title: Miḳdash me῾at
Title: מקדש מעט
Author: Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460 משה בן יצחק, ראיטי‏ ‎
Colophon: תם ונשלם בליל מוצאי שבת י"א לירח כסלו שנת השמ"ח לפ"ק. f. 67v

The work is incomplete, but accompanied by a commentary.

f. 44v a diagram of sefirot.

ff. 71v-72r
Initial words within simple pen-flourishings.

ff. 68v-69v
Title: Divre neḥumin
Title: דברי נחומין

A letter of consolation, addressed by Hananiah Ben Shelomoh Finzi of Gazzola to the brothers and sons of Mosheh Norzi of Mantua, who died in 1590. The name of the author (who was also the scribe of the previous part) and date are given at the end.

ff. 56r-59v
Title: Shirim le-nisu᾿in
Title: שירים לנישואים

Two short poems composed on the occasion of the marriage of Yehudah Yedidyah Rafael Sforno, by Mosheh Francotta and Luliani Shalom Cases.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 72 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

72 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks and mould spots.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 27 32

Written lines: 27 32

Non-uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in square characters.

In the earlier part, the text and its commentary written out on the same page side by side.

Censor's erasures.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century. Ḥananiah ben Shelomoh Finzi: inscribed, folio 69v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Mikdash Me'at. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,121.'

History

Origin: 1588-1590 Italy, N. (Gazzola)

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Domenico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1592 (folio 72v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 72v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Illegible owner's entry, folios 1v-2r.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 305: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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_27121 (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. 933.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL