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Title:
Jacob ben Asher's Arba'ah Ṭurim (Ḥoshen mishpaṭ)
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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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320 folios
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Start Date:
1360
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1360
Date Range:
1360
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Names:
Gershom ben Yeḳutiel
Giuseppe Almanzi
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Yehudah bar Yosef Erama
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Add MS 27137

Jacob ben Asher's Arba'ah Ṭurim (Ḥoshen mishpaṭ)

Contents

Fourth Book of Arba'ah Ṭurim, Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ, of Jacob ben Asher.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-320v
Title: Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ
Title: טור חשן משפט
Author: Jacob ben Asher יעקב בן אשר

Folios 1r-11v contain the preface and the index. The latter breaks off abruptly with the paragraph 330. The last paragraph in the text bears the number 429.

Certain parts of the colophon are damaged and hardly legible, among them the dating. Margoliouth read it as 'shnat 20', that is, [51]20 (1360).

1 miniature and full foliate border. f. 14r

Numerous decorated initial words with red and blue pen-flourishing.

Numerous pen-flourishing around initial words spreading into the margins creating a partial border in colours and gold.

ff. 242r-320v

Colophon: אני יהודה ב"ר יוסף [דביי]נא זצ"ל סיימתי זה הספר טור חשן המשפט יום א' פרשה ונתתי שלו[ם בא]רץ כי"ר כ"ח לספיר' העומר שנת ע[שרי]ם לפרט קטן. ברוך הנותן ליעף כח ולאין אונים עצמה ירבה. כתבתיהו לר' גרשם בכ"ר יקותיאל יצ"ו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו אחריו עד סוף כל הדורו. f. 320v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 320 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120/115 × 90/85 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

41 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii3 (folios 11-13), iii-vi8 (folios 14-45), vii6 (folios 46-51), viii-xxvii8 (folios 52-211), xxviii6 (folios 212-217), xxix-xli8 (folios 218-320a), marked with vertical catchwords at the end.

Condition

Slightly water-damaged (upper margins).

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and ruling in ink, page by page.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable.

Last line written within the ruling.

Some marginal notes in semi-cursive script.

Gilt edges.

Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank.

Catchwords; one of them (on folio 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv8.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century, unpunctuated. Yehudah bar Yosef Erama (?): inscribed with his name in the colophon, 5120 [1360] (folio 320v); the name Yehudah is marked many times (e.g., folios 48v, 58v, 76v, 113v, 117r, 117v, 162v, 246v, 260r, 297r); acrostic of Yehudah (folio 320v).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Jacob ben Asher. Tur Choshen Ham-Mishpat. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,137.'

History

Origin: 1360 Italy, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Rabbi Gershom ben Yeḳutiel: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 5120 (1360 CE) (folio 320v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 244: 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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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. 547.
    [Almanzi_1864] 33
    [Metzger_1982] 304
    [Tahan_2007] 118

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).
    [Almanzi_1864] אלמנצי, יוסף, and Giuseppe Almanzi. 'Yad Yosef: ... Ṿe-Hi Reshimat Sifre Ha-Bibliʾoṭeḳ / ... Asaf Ṿe-Ḳibets ... Yosef Almantsi Melekhet Yedido Shemuʾel Daṿid Lutsaṭo.'Padoue, 1864.
    [Metzger_1982] Thérèse Metzger. 'Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Thérèse and Mendel Metzger.'New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982.
    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.

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