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Add MS 27140

Record Id:
032-003368376
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Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 27140
Title:
Amirot ṭehorot (Sefat emet)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
129 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27140 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1550-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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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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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27140

Amirot ṭehorot (Sefat emet)

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-129v
Title: Amirot ṭehorot (Sefat emet)
Title: אמרות טהורות (שפת אמת)
Author: Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620 מנחם עזריה, מפאנו, 1548-1620

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 129 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 23

Written lines: 18 23

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Coloured edges.

Hand(s)

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

ff. 72r-95v
due to a different but contemporary hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Menachem Azariah. Sephath Emeth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,140.'

History

Origin: 1550-1699 2nd half of the 16th - 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 247: 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27140 (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. 843.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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