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Add MS 26952
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26952
Ḥovot ha-levavot by Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda
Contents
Philosophical writing.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-126vTitle: Ḥovot ha-levavotTitle: חובות הלבבותIn the Hebrew translation of Yehudah ibn Tibon.
The work begins on folio 3r, preceded by an introductory piece.
Colophon: אני אלחנן בכמ"ר יואב אליה מקורייו כתבתי זה חובת הלבבות מכתבת ידי ממש ונשלם יום א ט"ו ימים לירח כסליו רכ"ד השם ית' וית' שזכני לכתבו הוא יזכני לקרות בו ובשאר ספרי הקדש אני וזרעי וזרע זרעי עד סוף כל הדורות ונזכה לראות בניין בית הבחירה ונהיה מן הנכתבים לחיים בירושלם עם כל ישראל חבירים אמן. f. 125vPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 126 foliosDimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.Dimensions (written): 115 × 85 mm.Foliation:126 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation
Quires of 10 leaves each, marked at the end by repeated words from the following folio.
Condition
Slight worming at ends.
Usage stains.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 22
Written lines: 22
Uniform layout.
Horizontal quire catchwords in middle of lower margins, decorated.
Vertical pricking visible.
Horizontal ink ruling and vertical plummet ruling visible.
Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.
Initial words in square script.
Last written line outside ruling.
Red edges.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive and Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century, occasionally punctuated. Elḥanan ben Yo᾿av Eliyah of Ḳorio: inscribed, folio 125v.
Additions:Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Choboth Hal-Lebaboth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,952.'
History
Origin: 1463 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Yohanan Treves: inscribed, folio 126v.
Folio 126v: 'Io Pelegrino Treves [...] Magio 1562'.
Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan censor (active 1590-1609, Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1601 (folio 126v), see [Popper_1969] 18-19, 93.
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (olio 125v), see [Popper_1969] 85-87.
Jacobus Geraldini: inscribed with his name, "1555. die 16 dec[em]bris revidus p[er] d Jac[obu]m Geraldini", notarized by "Caesar Belliossus curiae ep[iscopa]lis Bon[oniensis]": folio 125v.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 62: 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26952 (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. 897.Bibliography
[Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.Funding of Cataloguing
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