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Add MS 27193
- Record Id:
- 032-003368401
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- 032-003368401
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100040765915.0x000027
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- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27193
- Title:
- Collection of poetical writings
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 032-003368401
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 95 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27193 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1400-1499
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27193
Collection of poetical writings
Contents
Poetical writings.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 3v-45vTitle: Beḥinat ῾olamTitle: בחינת עולםff. 46r-56rTitle: Baḳashat ha-memayenTitle: בקשת הממיןFiliation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 19948.f. 54r Initial words decorated with penwork and pen-flourishing, in black ink.
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 95 foliosDimensions (leaf): 120 × 85 mm.Dimensions (written): 55 × 45 mm.Foliation:95 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by signatures and catchwords at the end, and also by signatures at the beginning.
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 15 16
Written lines: 15 16
Uniform layout.
Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.
Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.
Initial words in larger characters.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.
Additions:Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Bechinath Olam. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,193.'
History
Origin: 1400-1499 15th century ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Clemento Renatto: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 95v).
Yosef ben Menaḥem Finzi: inscribed, folio 2v.
Shelomoh ben David: inscribed, folio 3v.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 305: 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27193 (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. 929.Bibliography
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