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Record Id:
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Title:
Sefer Livnat ha-sapir
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
430 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Angelino, Josef, 1300-1399
Angelino, Josef, 1300-1399
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Luigi da Bologna
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Add MS 27000

Sefer Livnat ha-sapir

Contents

Sefer Livnat ha-sapir, on Genesis and Leviticus.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-430v
Title: Livnat ha-sapir
Title: לבנת הספיר

See further [Felix_1991] 1-6.

Folios 226r-231v contain a commentary on Hosea, partially written in a different hand (folios 230-231).

The commentary on Genesis begins on folio 4r; on Leviticus, folio 232r; Tosafot on the pericope Tsaṿ and others of Leviticus, folio 416v.

There are a number of lacunae in the extant parts, e.g., at the end of folio 63 and 200 (marked by the scribe).

Author: Angelino, Josef אנג'לט, יוסף

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 430 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

430 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

ff. 230r-231v
due to a different hand.

Additions:

Folio 430r contains notes in a late Italian hand on certain features of the manuscript.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Libnath Has-Sappir. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 27,000.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active 1590-1609): inscribed with his name as censor: 'Visto per mi F. Luigi da Bologna del 1600' (folio 429v). See [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 428v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 111: 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 (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_27000 (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. 767.

Bibliography

    [Felix_1991] פליקס, איריס. 'פרקים בהגותו הקבלית של הרב יוסף אנג’לט / ... מאת איריס פליקס.'חמו"ל, 1991.
    [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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