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Title:
Commentaries
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
218 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Domenico Irosolimitano
Giuseppe Almanzi
Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen ben Ḥayim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef
הכהן, יצחק בן חיים בן אברהם בן יצחק בן יוסף
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Commentaries

Contents

A number of works by Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen ben Ḥayim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-88v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים
Author: Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen ben Ḥayim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef הכהן, יצחק בן חיים בן אברהם בן יצחק בן יוסף
ff. 1r-47r
Title: Commentary on the Song of Songs

Includes author's introduction and his colophon, stating: נשלם זה הפרוש שהתחלתי בבולוניא פה יישי בחדש אייר ה' ימים שנת ע'ז'ר' לאלף השישי ב'י'ל'א'ו' עם שם מרים: תום ביאורים: שיר השירים יום החמישי וכו':

Explicit: והיותר שאת שיש בתורתינו האלהית ואתה לא השגתו ועל זה דמה לך לצבי או לעופר האילים ורוץ מהרה על הרי בשמים ותריח בהם וישוב נפשך בך ותנוח דעתך. f. 46v
ff. 47r-50r
Title: Parashat sheḳalim
ff. 50r-64r
Title: Homily

Contains a summary at the end,

ff. 61r-62r
.

ff. 64r-189r
Title: Commentary on Pirḳe avot.

Contains summaries on each chapter and the author's colophon.

ff. 189r-214r
Title: Commentary on Lamentations

Contains the author's colophon.

ff. 214r-217b
Title: He῾arot

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 218 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 143 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 6 to 10 leaves each (irregular).

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling with a hard-point.

Biblical text copied in square characters.

Each portion of the commentary written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 16th century.

Additions:

Folios 3v-4v - contains notes in Italian cursive script.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac hak-Kohen. Comm. on the Song of Songs. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,960.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Domenico Irosolimitano: Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1598 (folio 218v); see [Popper_1969] 61.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 71; 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 (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed (folio 220v).

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. 230.

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).

Funding of Cataloguing

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