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Title:
Mishnah commentaries
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
147 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Domenico Irosolimitano
Dueren, Isaac ben Meïr, rabbi, scholar and Talmudic authority, fl 2nd half of the 13th century
Giuseppe Almanzi
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
ha-Kohen, Ḥayim ben Shelomoh
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Mishnah commentaries

Contents

Several commentaries on various parts of the Mishnah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-14r
Title: Perush Pirḳe avot
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105
Explicit: נשלמו פירוש ממסכת אבות ופירוש מפרק ר' מאיר על ידי שלמה: בר: משה: f. 14r
ff. 17r-47v
Title: Perush Pirḳe avot
ff. 53r-59v
Title: Hilkhot nidah
Author: Dueren, Isaac ben Meir, active 13th century יצחק בן מאיר, מדורא

Hagahot and explanations accompany the text throughout.

ff. 63r-66r
Title: Seder tana᾿im ve-amora᾿im
ff. 70r-147v
Title: Homiletical expositions
Author: ha-Kohen, Ḥayim ben Shelomoh

Fol. 70r: the first homily is preceded by a short prayer, partially in Italian (in Latin script), partially in Hebrew.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 147 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

147 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Numerous blank pages: fols. 14v-16v, 48r-52v, 60r, 61r-62v, 66v-68v, 69v, 79v-80r, 81r-81v, 104r-106v, 107v, 114v, 121v-124v, 138r-138v, 142v, 144v, 145v-147v.

Collation

Indeterminable (modern restoration).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 30

Written lines: 20 30

Various layouts.

Many marginal notes and occassional erasures.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 16th to 17th century.

ff. 135r-137v
- perhaps an autograph of Ḥayim ben Shelomoh ha-Kohen.

f. 143 - preserved as a narrow strip which have not belonged to the original manuscript.

Additions:

Fol. 60v: doodles; fol. 69r: notes in Hebrew.

Fol. 145r is probably a later addition, and apart from the text it contains diagrams showing landmarks of Erets Yiśraʾel (e.g. Shaʿare Binyamin, Meʿarat ha-Makhpelah).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Comm. on the Pirke Aboth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,125.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Domenico Irosolimitano, Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1598 (folio 144v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 232: 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 dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: 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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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. 446.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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