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Add MS 26974
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- Add MS 26974
- Title:
- Collection of ethical writings
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 145 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1287
- End Date:
- 1287
- Date Range:
- 1287
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26974
Collection of ethical writings
Contents
Ethical writings.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-142vTitle: Sefer ma῾alot ha-midotTitle: ספר מעלות המדותColophon: אני יחיאל ביר' יקותיאל ביר' בנימן הרופא נבתוי"א כתבתי זה הספר לבעל בריתי ר' שלמה ביר' משה ביר' יוסף נ"ע הרחמן יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות ויזכהו לקיים כל הכתוב בו אמן ונשלם באב של שנת מ"ז לפרט. f. 142vA codicological comparison with other manuscripts written by Jehiel ben Jekuthiel shows that this manuscript is an autograph, a clean copy of his work written for Shelomoh ben Mosheh ben Yosef. See also [Feintuch_1985] 51.
2 partial foliate borders inhabited by birds, in colours and gold.
ff. 1v-2r25 foliate scrolls around chapter titles and at the end, often inhabited by birds or dragons. f. 4r, 14v, 20r, 27r, 33r, 37r, 44r, 48v, 56r, 61r, 63v, 70v, 78v, 82r, 85r, 94r, 98r, 104v, 107r, 111v, 116r, 122r, 133r, 141r, 142v
1 chapter title accompanied by dragons. f. 76r
References
ff. 143r-145vTitle: Sha῾ar ῾Ets ḤayimTitle: שער עץ חייםA fragment only.
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 13th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 145 foliosDimensions (leaf): 145 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 190/185 × 105/100 mm.Foliation:145 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end), folio 145 is a foliated parchment flyleaf.
Collation
15 quires: i-xiii10 (folios 1-130), xiv8 (folios 131-138), xv6 (folios 139-144).
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 31
Written lines: 31
Uniform layout.
Initial words in larger square characters.
Edges are coloured red and black.
Ruling is visible.
Numerous maniculae.
Watermark, folio [iv] of three crescents, similar to [Heawood_1950] 874, but without inscription (Venice, 1783).
Watermark, folio [146] of a letter V, unidentified.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 13th century. Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin ha-Rofe: inscribed with his name in the author's colophon, month Av [50]47 [1287] (folio 141r).
Additions:Recipe for making ink (folio 145r).
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Jechiel ben Jekuthiel. Ma'aloth Ham-Middoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,974.'
History
Origin: 1287 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Shelomoh ben Mosheh ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in the author's colophon (folio 141r).
Perets ben Menaḥem sold to Eli῾ezer ben Avraham: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (14th century) (folio 1r).
Purchase note, mostly illegible (folio 1r).
Acquisition note, partially illegible (folio 1r).
Shelomoh ben Yekutiel ben Shelomoh: inscribed with his name (16th century) (folios 144v, 145r).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his collection no. 85: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library by the British Museum in 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum: inscribed in Hebrew 'MS 85' (front flyleaf (iv)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_26974 (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. 868.Bibliography
[Feintuch_1985] פינטוך, ישראל צבי. 'מסורות ונוסחאות בתלמוד : מחקרים / ישראל צבי פיינטוך, העורך -דניאל שפרבר.'Ramat Gan: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, 1985.[Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.Funding of Cataloguing
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