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032-003369749
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Title:
Aṿat nefesh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
69 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Alessandro de Caii
Asher Ṿiterbo
Camillo Jaghel
Crescas, Asher Bonan ben Abraham, ‏ 1400-1449
Crescas, Asher Bonan ben Abraham, ‏ 1400-1449
Giuseppe Almanzi
Levi ben Gershon
Yehudah Efrayim Ṿiterbo
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Add MS 26987

Aṿat nefesh

Contents

The supercommentary on Abraham Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2a-69v
Title: Aṿat nefesh
Title: אות נפש
Author: Crescas, Asher Bonan ben Abraham קרשקש, אשר בן אברהם
Incipit: ביאור הסודות מאבן עזרא על התורה ונקראת אות נפש: f. 2r
Explicit: ר"ל למחות רושם התאוה מנפש השלם אשר הוא סעיף מסעיפי החמריות וישאר כולו נצחי ושכלי בעולם הנפרדים: f. 69v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 69 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 156 × 108 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

7 quires: first 6 quires of 10 leaves and the last quire of 7 leaves.

Catchwords on the the last page of the quire.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Visible hard-point ruling.

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r: Almanzi's note saying that the work is attributed to Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides aka Ralba"g).

Asher Ṿiterbo: inscribed, folio 2r.

Yehudah Efrayim Ṿiterbo: inscribed, folio 2r.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 69v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Alessandro de Caii (?): inscribed with his name, 1559 (?) (folio 69v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 99: inscribed (folio 1r); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153), inscribed, [71v].

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_26987 (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. 198.

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

BL