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Title:
Sefer Tsiyoni
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
151 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1450-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ẓiyyoni, Menaḥem, 1340-1410
Ẓiyyoni, Menaḥem, 1340-1410
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Add MS 27202

Sefer Tsiyoni

Contents

A kabbalistic commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-151v
Title: Sefer Tsiyoni
Title: ספר ציוני

On folios 4r-8v there is a short commentary on Sefer yetsirah.

On folios 150v-151r there are three sets of lines yielding the acrostic of the author's name.

On Tsiyoni see further [Boaz_2004] 55-72.

Author: Menaḥem Ẓiyyoni, active 14th century-15th century ציוני, מנחם בן מאיר

References

[Tsiyoni_1560]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the second half of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 151 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Initial words in larger characters.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the second half of the 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Menachem Tsiyoni. Comm. on the Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,202.'

History

Origin: 1450-1499 2nd half of the 15th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 316: 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_27202 (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. 770.

Bibliography

    [Tsiyoni_1560] Ẓiyyoni, active 14th century-15th century Menaḥem, and המאה ה־15/14 ‏מנחם ציוני. 'Sefer Tsiyoni : Beʾur ʿal Ha-Torah ʿal Derekh Ha-Emet / Lehe-Ḥakham Menaḥem Tsiyoni.'Ḳremonah 1560, קרימונה, ‏ש״כ 1560, 1560.
    [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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