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- Title:
- Shaʿar ha-shamayim
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- Extent:
- 76 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1579
- Date Range:
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Add MS 27051
Shaʿar ha-shamayim
Contents
Shaʿar ha-shamayim (fragments) and Ginze ha-melekh of Isaac ben Abraham ibn Latif.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-76vTitle: Shaʿar ha-shamayim. Ginze ha-melekhTitle: שער השמים. גנזי המלךff. 1r-43vTitle: Shaʿar ha-shamayimContains the first 'gate' and the first seven chapters of the second 'gate'.
Folio 2 contains an imperfect table of contents of the first 'gate'.
The heading is on folio 4r.
The short preface is followed by the statement indicating the contents of all the four 'gates', then follows the first 'gate'.
The fragment on the second 'gate' starts on folio 38r.
ff. 49r-76vTitle: Ginze ha-melekhFiliation: Cf. contents of [BL] Or 1084 (Margoliouth, no. 920., part III).Colophon: כתבתיו אני הצעיר מרדכי קנ"ה רוטה בכמ' משה קנ"ה רוטה יצ"ו והשלמתיו ביום כ"ט לולייו השלט' לי"א וזה היה פה ע' פילישו במודינה: וכתבתיו עבור טובינא דחכימי החכם השלם הכולל כמהר"ר מרדכי דאטו יצ"ו מורי ואלופי: ה' יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף הדורות: אמן אמן כן יעשה האל: f. 76vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 76 foliosDimensions (leaf): 221 × 145 mm.Foliation:76 folios (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation
Originally quires of 10 leaves each.
Condition
A few leaves slightly damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 30 42
Written lines: 30 42
Visible ruling with pencil.
Two different handwritings, divided by a few blank leaves (folios 44-48).
In the first part, the initial word of the chapter is written in larger characters.
The second part, from folio 49r onwards, has catchwords on every verso.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Mordekhai Canaruto: inscribed with his name in the colophon, with a date of 5339 (1579), folio 76v.
ff. 1r-43vandff. 49r-76v- written in two different Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 16th century.Additions:Binding
BM/BL in-house, dark blue.
Spine title: 'Isaac ibn Latif. Sha'ar Hash-Shamayim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,051.'
History
Origin: 1500-1579 The second part dated for 1579. Italy (Modena)Provenance and Acquisition
Mordekhai Dato: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 76v.
Avraham Graziano: inscribed in a note, folio 2r, 4r.
Renato da Modena: inscribed in the censor's entry: 'Visto per mi fr. Renato da Mod.', see [Popper_1969] 132-133; folio 76v.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 156, II; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27051 (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. 916.Bibliography
[BL] BL = British Library shelfmark[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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