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Add MS 26982
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- Add MS 26982
- Title:
- Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 353 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1350-1399
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Add MS 26982
Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
Contents
Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan of Isaac of Corbeil, with the additions of Moses of Zurich.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-353vTitle: Sefer mitsṿotTitle: ספר מצותThe manuscript begins on folio 4r with the section numbered 149. The last paragraph, which starts on folio 348r, is numbered 295.
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 18684 part I (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 514).Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentExtent: 353 foliosDimensions (leaf): 250 × 170 mm.Dimensions (written): 125 × 85 mm.Foliation:353 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folios 1-3 are vellum flyleaves.
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.
Condition
Incomplete at the beginning. Folio 352 only partially preserved.
Layout
Columns:1 3
Ruled lines: 35
Written lines: 35
Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a pencil (plummet).
Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios indistinguishable.
Last line written inside the ruling.
Catchwords at the end of the quire in the earlier part, in the later part at the end of each leaf.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the latter part of the 14th century.
Additions:Binding
Post-1600. Black buckram.
Spine title: 'Isaac of Corbeil. Sepher Mitsvoth Katon, With Notes. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,982.'
History
Origin: 1350-1399 2nd half of the 14th century Germany?Provenance and Acquisition
Folio 64v: a form of geṭ, issued by Gershon de-Mitkere Se'adyah bar rabi Mosheh, his wife being Merona bat rabi Avraham; dated Zurich, 5150 (1390).
Folio 1r: the records of birth of three sons and one daughter of Gavri᾿el ben Refa᾿el, first dated [5]269 (1509). The manuscript was then presented to Gavri᾿el's gandson, who also entered the birth of his children on the same page.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 94; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_26982 (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. 515.Bibliography
[BL] BL = British Library shelfmark[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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