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Title:
Responses by Solomon ibn Adret
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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:
162 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Responses by Solomon ibn Adret

Contents

A fragmentary collection of responses by Solomon ibn Adret.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-162v
Title: Responses
Title: שאלות ותשובות

The manuscript concludes with no. 344.

On folios 31-35 additional responses on Dine mamonot have been written in the margin by a later hand.

Author: Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310 אדרת, שלמה בן אברהם אבן (רשב"א)

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 162 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 6 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Water-damaged, especially lower margins. Stained.

Ink eating through pages.

A leaf missing after folio 38.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 51

Written lines: 28 51

Non-uniform layout.

Hard-point ruling visible at times.

Initial words in each section are given in larger characters.

Some marginal notes and additions are present.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Solomon ibn Adereth. Teshuboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,950.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Former owner's note, folio 1r.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 60: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, folio [164v].

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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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. 571.

Bibliography

    [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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