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Add MS 27172

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Title:
Sefer meʼirat ʻenayim
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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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Extent:
123 folios
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Start Date:
1552
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1552
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1552
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Isaac ben Samuel, c 1250-1350
Isaac ben Samuel, c 1250-1350
Yaʿaḳov ben Matatyah Fo᾿ah
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Add MS 27172

Sefer meʼirat ʻenayim

Contents

Summary of Contents: The supercommentary on Naḥmanides' (Moshe ben Nahman aka ha-Ramban) commentary on the Pentateuch by Yitsḥaḳ ben Shemu᾿el of Acre.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-123r
Title: Sefer meʼirat ʻenayim
Title: ספר מאירת עינים
Author: Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre יצחק בן שמואל, דמן עכו
Filiation: Cf. [Neubauer_1994] 2523-2526.
Colophon: ואני המעתיק יעקב בר' מתתיה פואה זלל"ה: המתגורר פה שאלוצי עיר על ההר גבוהה: אחלה פני שוכן מעונה: שכאשר זכני להשלים זה הספר באמונה: כן יזכני להגות בתורתו בכל עבר ופנה [...] ויצילנו מהצרה אשר אנחנו בה: שהיא קול רעם מלחמה וחרבה: שנת י"ש"ב" רוחו הנדיבה: באלף הששי לפקוד אומתו באהבה ובחבה: ליל כ"ט כסליו חמשי להדלקה יקיים עמנו בצדקה וכ': f. 123r

f. 38v, 123v, a diagram of sefirot.

References

[Meirat_Enayim_1975]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 123 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 156 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

123 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flylevef at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 and 9 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31 36

Written lines: 31 36

Folios 5r-13r - additional commentary in the margins.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script, unpunctuated. Yaʿaḳov ben Matatyah Fo᾿ah: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 1552 (folio 123r).

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black leather.

Spine title: 'Isaac of Akko. Meirath Enayim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,172.'

History

Origin: 1552 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 282; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153).

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. 214.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.
    [Meirat_Enayim_1975] שמואל, דמן עכו יצחק בן, and of Acre Isaac ben Samuel. 'Sefer Meʾirat ʻenayim : Ṿe-Hu Biʾur Sodot Ha-Torah Be-Ferush Ha-Ramban Zal ʻal Ha-Torah ... ʻim Mafteaḥ Haḳdamat Darke Ha-Ḳabalah Le-Rabenu Yitsḥaḳ Ben Rabi Shemuʾel de-Min ʻAko ; Yotse La-or Paʻam Rishonah ʻal Pi Ketav-Yad Parma, Iṭalya, Be-Tosefet Hagahot Ṿe-Heʻarot, Marʾe Meḳomot, Hashṿaʾot, Beʾurim u-Ferushim Ha-Niḳraʾim Petaḥ ʻenayim ʻal Haḳdamat Darke Ha-Ḳabalah, Yefe ʻenayim ʻal Sefer Meʾirat ʻenayim / Ḥayim Ary’ ʻErlanger.'ירושלים: חאערלאנגער, תשל״ה 1975, Lugano, Switzerland, 1975.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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