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Add MS 27012

Record Id:
032-003368834
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Add MS 27012
Title:
Collection of poetical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
212 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27012 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1581
End Date:
1581
Date Range:
1581
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Cristoforo
Eliyahu ben Refael ha-Rofe
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Natan ben Binyamin Finzi
Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460
Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460
Yehudah ben Mordekhai of Blanis
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27012

Collection of poetical writings

Contents

Poetical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 3r-81r
Title: Miḳdash me῾at
Title: מקדש מעט
Author: Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460 משה בן יצחק, ראיטי‏ ‎

Folio 2v: rhymed linesstating that the manuscript of parts I and II was given to Natan ben Binyamin (the scribe of part III) as a Purim gift by his teacher.

The text seems to be incomplete. Part 1 begins on folio 4r, and part 2 on folio 27r.

Filiation: Cf. Add MS 27001.
ff. 81v-87v
Title: Igeret ya῾ar ha-Levanon
Title: אגרת יער הלבנון

With several blanks left by the scribe.

Author: Rieti, Moses ben Isaac da, 1388-1460 ריאיטי, משה בן יצחק
ff. 88r-205r
Title: Derashot ṿe-igrot
Title: דרשות ואגרות

Copied for the most part by Natan ben Binyamin Finzi, and including compositions of his own.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 212 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125/170 × 70/100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Damp at head in part.

Usage stains.

Ink partly fading.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 26 43

Written lines: 26 43

Non-uniform layout.

Pencil ruling visible in part I.

Catchwords on most of the versos.

Initial words in square characters.

Text on folio 206-212 has been crossed out.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the 16th century. Eliyahu ben Refael ha-Rofe: inscribed, folio 3r, and Natan ben Binyamin Finzi: inscribed, 205v, 206r-212r.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Rieti. Mikdash Me'at, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,012.'

History

Origin: 1581 Italy, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Gio[vanni] Dom[eni]co [Carretto?], Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1602 (folio 211v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Censored by Cristoforo[...]: inscribed with his name, 1592 (folio 2r).

Yehudah ben Mordekhai of Blanis: inscribed, folio 3v.

Folios 206r-212r contain a series of entries recording the preformance of berit milah on various occasions, and the birth of children. Some of the entires are in Italian.

Folio 2r contains a list of names for kadish prayer, in Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 122: 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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_27012 (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. 932.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL