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Add MS 26958
Title:
Natan ben Reuven Shapira's Me᾿orot Natan (Part I)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
346 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
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Add MS 26958

Natan ben Reuven Shapira's Me᾿orot Natan (Part I)

Contents

Part 1 of Natan ben Reuven Shapira's Me᾿orot Natan.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-346v
Title: Me᾿orot Natan
Title: מאורות נתן

A recension of Lurianic kaṿanot by Natan ben Reuven Shapira, with many additions by himself, Benyamin ha-Kohen and Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto. Contians the author's preface.

Author: Shapira, Natan ben Reuven, -1662 שפירא, נתן בן ראובן דוד

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 346 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 153 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Small marks of book-worming.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 24 26

Written lines: 24 26

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Folio 1 is an ornamented title-page.

Coloured edges.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Meoroth Nathan. Part I. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,958.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 68: 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 (ii)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_26958 (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. 812.

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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