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Add MS 26975
Title:
Responses of David ibn Abi Zimra
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
157 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
ibn Abi Zimra, David ben Solomon, 1513-1573
ibn Abi Zimra, David ben Solomon, 1513-1573
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Add MS 26975

Responses of David ibn Abi Zimra

Contents

Responses of David ibn Abi Zimra.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-157v
Title: Responses
Title: שאלות ותשובות

Composed of 180 entries, 35 of which refer to difficult passages in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Folios 155v-157v contain a table of contents, which does not agree with the numbering of responses in the text.

In a few cases the signatures of the author (דוד ן' שלמה) was copied out by the scribe (e.g. responses 3-5).

Author: David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, active 1513-1573 זמרא, דוד בן שלמה אבן

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 157 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 158 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Hard-point vertical ruling visible.

Catchwords on every page.

Has original (but incorrect) Hebrew foliation.

Some marginal notes and additions are present.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'David ben Abi Zimra. Teshuboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,975.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r: a date of 5548 (1788) written in a large semi-cursive script, on the top of the page.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 86: 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, folio [159v].

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

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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. 577.

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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