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Add MS 27147
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- Add MS 27147
- Title:
- Collection of halakhic works
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 73 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1700-1799
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27147
Collection of halakhic works
Contents
A collection of halakhic works by various authors.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 6v-54vTitle: Hilkhot sheḥitah u-vediḳahTitle: הלכות שחיטה ובדיקהHilkhot bediḳah begins on folio 20r.
ff. 54v-56vTitle: [Shiv῾im ṭerefot she-minah ha-Rambam]Title: [שבעים טריפות שמנה הרמב"ם]Arranged under headings of members of the body, beginning with the head.
ff. 56v-65vTitle: Shevet musarTitle: שבט מוסרChapter 36 only. Copied from a printed edition.
ff. 65v-73vTitle: Sefer zikaronTitle: ספר זכרוןThe first chapter, followed by the beginning of the 2nd chapter only.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 73 foliosDimensions (leaf): × mm.Dimensions (written): × mm.Foliation:73 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 22 29
Written lines: 22 29
Uniform layout.
Occassional catchwords.
Initial word of each section written in larger characters.
Some marginal notes in contemporary handwriting.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 18th century. Yehudah Ḥayim: perhaps the copyist of the part of the manuscript: inscribed in the prefixed certificates, folios 1r-6r.
ff. 1r-5v,ff. 6r-6r,ff. 7v-73r- due to different hands.Additions:Binding
Post-1600. Contemporary leather binding. Gold tooled.
Spine title: 'Jacob Weil. Hilkhoth Shechitah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,147.'
History
Origin: 1700-1799 18th century ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Three sheḥitah certificates, on behalf of Yehuda Ḥayim of Citadella, dated 1757, given by Mordekhai ben Shim᾿on Ḥayim of Verona, Menaḥem ben Yitshaḳ of Verona, Ya᾿aḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Menaḥem of Modena and Avraham Yisrael of Padua.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 255: 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27147 (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. 554.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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