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Add MS 27555

Record Id:
032-003368791
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003368791
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100040998137.0x000002
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Add MS 27555
Title:
Collection of grammatical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
176 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27555 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
Kimḥi, Moses, 1100-1190
Kimḥi, Moses, 1100-1190
Samuel Schönblum
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27555

Collection of grammatical works

Contents

Grammatical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-163v
Title: Sefer ha-shorashim
Title: ספר השרשים

Includes an appendix on the Aramaic words in the Bible at the end. Incomplete at the beginning.

Author: Kimhi, David, 1160-1235 קמחי, דוד בן יוסף
ff. 164r-176v
Author: Kimḥi, Moses, -1190 קמחי, משה בן יוסף
Title: Mahalakh shevile ha-da῾at
Title: מהלך שבילי הדעת

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 176 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

176 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

17 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and with signatures at the end. Quires no. 23, 24 are incomplete. The first 9 quires are missing entirely.

Condition

Tidemarks and mould spots.

Edge tears.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling and pricking.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Doodles in lower outer corners, folios 96r, 98r.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 14th to 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'David Kimchi. Sepher Hash-Shorashim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,555.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 December 1866: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27555 (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. 963.
    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. p. 152.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL