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Add MS 26967
Title:
Poems by Moses ben Mikhael ha-Kohen
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
187 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1702
End Date:
1702
Date Range:
1702
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Moses ben Michael Kohen
ha-Kohen, Moses ben Mikhael, 1600-1699
ha-Kohen, Moses ben Mikhael, 1600-1699
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Add MS 26967

Poems by Moses ben Mikhael ha-Kohen

Contents

Poetical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew and Ladino.

ff. 1r-187v
Title: Shirot ve-tushbaḥot
Title: שירות ותושבחות
Author: Moses ben Mikhael, ha-Kohen משה בן מיכאל, הכהן

A collection of poetical pieces of religious character by different authors, compiled by Moses ben Michael Kohen, cantor of the Levantine congregation at Venice in the early 18th century.

The musical notes, to which the consecutive series of compositions down to folio 118v are assigned are partly representing Arabic terms in a corrupt form. The tune is also often indicated.

There are number of additional pieces in Ladino and Hebrew on ff. 153r-160v and ff. 184r-186v.

On folio 162r begins an index of compositions.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 187 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of 6 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 28 30

Written lines: 28 30

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical hard-point ruling.

Running titles in larger square characters.

Sections marked in the margins.

Folio 1 is a title-page, with a pen-decorated border.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive of the 18th century. Moses ben Michael Kohen: inscribed, folio 1r.

Additions:

Folios 93-94, 154-155 and 184-187 are later additions, some previously folded.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Neim Zemiroth. Hebrew & Ladino. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,967.'

History

Origin: 1702 1702 Italy, N.(Venice)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 78: 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 v(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_26967 (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. 938.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL