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Record Id:
032-003369728
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Add MS 26956
Title:
Hilkhot sheḥiṭah and Hilkhot ṭrefah by Judah ben Benjamin ha-Rofe Anav
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
80 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
Anav, Judah ben Benjamin, 1200-1299
Anav, Judah ben Benjamin, 1200-1299
Giuseppe Almanzi
Renato da Modena
Yehudah ben Binyamin Finzi
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Add MS 26956

Hilkhot sheḥiṭah and Hilkhot ṭrefah by Judah ben Benjamin ha-Rofe Anav

Contents

Summary of Contents: Hilkhot sheḥiṭah and Hilkhot ṭrefah by Judah ben Benjamin ha-Rofe Anav, accompanied by an anonymous marginal commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-22v
Title: Hilkhot sheḥiṭah
Title: הלכות שחיטה
Author: Anav, Judah ben Benjamin, ha-Rofe, active 13th century ענו, יהודה בן בנימין הרופא
Explicit: חזק יהודה בירבי בנימין זצ"ל ברבי יהודה ז"ל ברבי בנימין פינצי זלה"ה. f. 20v

Folio 21v contains a short statement, in a later cursive hand, on the rules regarding ritual slaughter that were in force in the Jewish community at Rome (bne ḳahal Roma).

Numerous initials in ornamental designs, in red and mauve ink. f. 9v, 11r, 12r, 13v, 17r, 18r

ff. 22v-80v
Title: Hilkhot ṭrefah
Title: הלכות טריפה
Author: Anav, Judah ben Benjamin, ha-Rofe, active 13th century ענו, יהודה בן בנימין הרופא

f. 52r, 56v, 58r, 59r, 60r, 61r, 61v Numerous initials in ornamental designs, in red and mauve inks

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 80 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115/70 × 70/50 mm.
Foliation:

80 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

The first and the last page nearly illegible.

One leaf cancelled after folio 8, and two leaves after folio 71. No lacunae in the text.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 12 40

Written lines: 12 40

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios almost indistinguishable.

Last line written outside the ruling.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century. Yehudah ben Binyamin Finzi: inscribed, folio 20v.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, marbled card cover. Red edges.

Spine title: 'Hilchoth Shechitah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,956.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Renato da Modena: inscribed with his name, 1626 (folio f. 79v ); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 66; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed, front flyleaf (i)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_26956 (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. 526.

Bibliography

    [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).

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