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Title:
῾Asarah ma᾿amarot by Menahem Azariah da Fano
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
218 folios
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 27132

῾Asarah ma᾿amarot by Menahem Azariah da Fano

Contents

A kabbalistic work of the school of Isaac Luria.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-218v
Title: ῾Asarah ma᾿amarot
Title: עשרה מאמרות
Author: Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620 מנחם עזריה, מפאנו

Contains: Ma᾿amar shivre ha-luḥot (folios 3r-20r), Ma᾿amar me᾿ah ḳeshiṭah (folios 20r-101r), Ma᾿amar ha-milu᾿im (folios 101r-110v), Ma᾿amar ha-raḳi῾im (folio 231r-218v). Includes also Ma᾿amar ma῾ayan ganim (folios 112r-213r) of the collection Amirot ṭehorot.

See [Avivi_2008] 358-359, [Sefunot] 19, pp. 348-361.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 218 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 232 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

218 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Original Hebrew folation in the left upper corner of every recto.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Running titles.

Visible pricking.

Folio 1 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Menachem Azariah. Cabbalistic Treatises. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,132.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 239: 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 (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

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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. 841.

Bibliography

    [Avivi_2008] Joseph Avivi, and יוסף אביב"י. 'Ḳabalat Ha-Ari / Yosef Avivi.'Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-Mizraḥ, ירושלים, 2008.
    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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