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- Jacob ben Asher's Arba'ah Ṭurim (Oraḥ ḥayim begins and Yoreh de῾ah)
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Add MS 27150
Jacob ben Asher's Arba'ah Ṭurim (Oraḥ ḥayim begins and Yoreh de῾ah)
Contents
Book 1 and 2 of Arba'ah Ṭurim of Jacob ben Asher.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-274vTitle: Arba῾ah ṬurimTitle: ארבעה טוריםOraḥ ḥayim begins on folio 8r, Yoreh de῾ah begins on folio 152r.
Arba῾ah Ṭurim is preceded by explanations of the abbreviations and the difficult words, and by a chapter on Hilkhot ῾avadim (as in Harley 5716, Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 544., from which it was probably copied).
Colophon: ותכל מלאכת עבודת הקדש מלאכת ארבעה טורים את שמותם אכנה הנה בסופו אחת לאחת הטור הראשון הוא הנקרא ארח חיים הטור השני יורה דעה והטור השלישי חשן משפט והטור הרביעי שהוא האחרון הוא הנקרא אבן העזר וכתבתיו וסיימתיו אני הצעיר מרדכי מיסוליאנויזיי"א בכמ"ר משה טובי זקן זצ"ל אל האחים הנכבדים והמפוארים כמ"ר רפאל וכמ"ר שמואל וכמ"ר יצחק יצ"ו יורשי כמ"ר דניאל אביהם נ"ע והיתה השלמתו היום יו' ג' תשעה עשר לירח אלול שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתי' ושנים וחמשים לבריאת עולם קרפיוה' אשר זיכני לכותבו ולשלמו יזכם להגות בו הם וזרעם וזרע זרעם עד סוף כל הדורות אמן וקבלתי מהם שכר טרחי משלם וחלקי המחוקק יהיה צפון עם שאר הצדיקים אמן ס"ו. f. 274vPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentExtent: 274 foliosDimensions (leaf): 342 × 236 mm.Dimensions (written): 225 × 156 mm.Foliation:274 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation
29 quires: i7 (folios 1-7), ii-xv10 (folios 8-147), xvi4 (folios 148-151), xvii-xxviii10 (folios 152-271), xxix3 (folios 272-274).
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:2
Ruled lines: 43
Written lines: 43
Uniform layout.
Visible pricking and horizontal ruling in ink, page by page, and vertical ruling with plummet, also page by page.
Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.
Last line written within ruling.
Initial words in larger square script.
Catchword at the end of each quire.
Contains marginal annotations.
Many censorial erasures, e.g., folio 41v, 55r, 58v, 146r, etc.
Marginal drawings, e.g., folio 86v, 87v.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive and square script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Mordekhai mi-Suliano: inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio f. 274v ).
Additions:Binding
BM in-house.
Spine title: 'Jacob ben Asher. Tur Orach Chayim And Tur Yoreh De'ah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Additional 27,150.'
History
Origin: 1492 Italy, N. (Carpi)Provenance and Acquisition
Refa᾿el ben Daniyel, Shemu᾿el ben Daniyel, Yitsḥaḳ ben Daniyel: inscribed in the colophon, folio f. 274v .
Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 274v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.
Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 'Revisto per me Gio. Domenico Caretto 1609' (folio 273r); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century): inscribed with his name, 'Revisto per mi Fra Luigi da Bologna, 1597' (folio 274v), see [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.
Folio 1r: several ownership notes: inheritants of Shelomoh of Cologne (Cremona), below this: Azri᾿el of Cologne, and afterwards: sons of Cologne.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 258: 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.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27150 (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. 546.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).Funding of Cataloguing
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