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Add MS 27044
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- Add MS 27044
- Title:
- Sefer sheḳel ha-ḳodesh
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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:
- 97 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1500-1599
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27044
Sefer sheḳel ha-ḳodesh
Contents
Sefer sheḳel ha-ḳodesh.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-97vTitle: Sefer sheḳel ha-ḳodeshTitle: ספר שקל הקודשThere is a table of contents at the end, showing that the work consists of 13 chapters. The beginning of several chapters have been marked by an Italian cursive hand in the margin.
The manuscript has in a number of places been corrected by an Italian hand, but these corrections should be distinguished from alterations made by the censors (e.g., folio 43r).
References
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 97 foliosDimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.Foliation:97 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.
There is a later pagination in Italian cursive in the left-hand upper corner of each recto and the right-hand upper corner of each verso.
Collation
Quires of mostly 5 leaves each.
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 19
Written lines: 19
Uniform layout.
Initial words in much larger square characters.
Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.
Catchwords on every verso.
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 16th century.
Additions:Binding
BM/BL in-house. Blue hard cover.
Spine: 'Moses ben Shemtob. Shekel Hak-Kodesh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,044.'
History
Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy?Provenance and Acquisition
Censored by Clemente Renatto, Italian censor: inscribed with his name (folio 97v).
Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 97r); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
Partially illegible ownership entries, folio 2r. Yom Ṭov, folio 3r; Ḥayim, folio 4r.
Bibliographical remarks of Joseph Almanzi: 1r (i.e. recto of the first flyleaf). There are some additional lines by Yoel Almanzi, dated Padua 1846, on the verso of the same leaf.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 150; 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 dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153); 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27044 (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. 761.Bibliography
[Shekel-Hakodesh_1996] ליאון, נפ׳ 1305 משה די, and de Leon Moses ben Shem Tov. 'Sefer Sheḳel Ha-Ḳodesh / Le-R. Mosheh Di Liʾon ; Hehedir ʿal Pi Kitve Yad Ṿe-Hosif Mavo Sharl Mopsiḳ ; ʿim Divre Mavo Me-et Mosheh Idel.'לוס אנג׳לס: הוצאת כרוב 1996, Los Ang’eles, 1996.[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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