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Add MS 27001
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- Add MS 27001
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- Collection of poetical works
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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:
- 139 folios
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- 1584
- End Date:
- 1584
- Date Range:
- 1584
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27001
Collection of poetical works
Contents
Poetical texts.
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian
ff. 4r-7vTitle: Igeret ya῾ar ha-LevanonTitle: אגרת יער הלבנוןWith subscriptions and variant readings given by Joseph Almanzi, apparently on the basis of MS Cambridge Add. 1193.
Incipit: העתיקה יוסף אלמנצי מפאדובה בשנת התקצ"א לב"ע מס' כ"י המחבר עצמו אצל אהובו מוהר"ר גירונדי נר"ו. f. 4rff. 8V-96vTitle: Miḳdash me῾at (olam ṿe-hekhal)Title: מקדש מעט (אולם והיכל)Folios 95v-96v written out by Joseph Almanzi, with his marginal notes and additions.
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 27121.ff. 97r-104rTitle: Mi-segulot evare ba῾ale ḥayimTitle: מסגלות אברי בעלי חייםContains several entries containing non-Hebrew terms. Parts of the text have been crossed out by a censor (e.g., folio 102v-104v).
ff. 105r-139vTitle: Sefer ha-maskilTitle: ספר המשכילBegins with a poem, folio 106r.
Colophon: הועתק ע"י הצעיר ועבד נאמן ליראי ה' ולחושבי שמו : נאם שלמה יצ"ו בכ"מ שמואל מרושינה זלה"ה פה אסטי שנת ד'ש'ם' לפ"ק. f. 139vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 139 foliosDimensions (leaf): 230 × 175 mm.Dimensions (written): 195 × 115 mm.Foliation:139 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Collation
Leaves individually guarded.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ruled lines: 32 37
Written lines: 32 37
Non-uniform layout.
Vertical hard-point ruling.
First twenty-two pages are a later addition.
Initials in larger script.
Many marginal notes.
Catchwords on most of the pages.
A drawing of the sefirotic tree, folio 66v.
Censor's erasures, folios 96v-97r, 102v-104r.
Hand(s)
Italian cursive scripts of the 16th century. Shelomoh ben Shemuel of Rossina: inscribed in the colophon, folio 139v; Joseph Almanzi: inscribed on several folios, e.g., 4r.
ff. 4r-22vandff. 95v-96vare written out by Joseph Almanzi.Additions:Folios 1-2 are a later additions, giving the contents of five manuscripts of Moses Rieti's Miḳdash me῾at.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Moses Rieti. Iggereth Ya'ar Hal-Lebhanon. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,001.'
History
Origin: 1584 with 19th-century additions. Italy, N. (Asti and Padua)Provenance and Acquisition
Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1598 (folio 129v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 61, and appendix § 62-74.
Shelomoh Pogetto: inscribed, folio 3r.
Me᾿ir ben Shelomoh Luzzatto: inscribed with his name in a record of purchase of the manuscript from Shelomoh Pogetto, folio 3r.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 112: 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 (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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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. 934.Funding of Cataloguing
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