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032-003368820
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Add MS 27032
Title:
Ḳitsur Pisḳe ha-Rosh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
170 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
ben-Harosh, Yehiel, 1350-1449
ben-Harosh, Yehiel, 1350-1449
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Add MS 27032

Ḳitsur Pisḳe ha-Rosh

Contents

Ḳitsur Pisḳe ha-Rosh on various tractates of the Talmud, compiled by Jehiel ben Asher.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-170v
Title: Ḳitsur Pisḳe ha-Rosh
Title: קיצור פסקי הראש
Author: Jehiel ben Asher (ben ha-Rosh) יחיאל בן אשר
ff. 2r-15r
Title: Rimze Yevamot
ff. 15r-41r
Title: Rimze Ketubot
ff. 41r-59r
Title: Simane Giṭin
ff. 59r-72r
Title: Rimze Ḳidushin
ff. 72r-93r
Title: Rimze Bava ḳama
ff. 93r-129r
Title: Rimze Bava metsi῾a
ff. 129r-170v
Title: Simane batra

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 170 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

170 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 4 at the end).

Collation

17 quires of 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last page.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Visible plummet ruling (on each bifolio) and pricking.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.

Last line written within the ruling.

Some marginal notes in semi-cursive script.

Sections numbered in Hebrew letters in the margins.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century, unpunctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Jacob ben Asher. Kitsur Piske ha-Rosh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,032.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Several ownership notes: folios 1r, 1v, 169v, 170r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 168v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, (folio 168v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 138: 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_27032 (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. 542.

Bibliography

    [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).

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