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Title:
Torat Natan
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
318 folios
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Languages:
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
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Torat Natan

Contents

A commentary on the Zohar, in the order of pericopes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-318v
Title: Torat Natan
Title: תורת נתן

Genesis, folio 11v; Exodus, folio 151v; Leviticus, folio 187v; Numbers, folio 291r; Deuteronomy, folio 297v.

There is a number of notes and comments by the scribe in the margin.

Author: Shapira, Natan ben Reuven, -1662 שפירא, נתן בן ראובן דוד
Colophon: סיימתי להעתיק כל הפרשיות שמצאתי בזה הס' הנקרא תורת נתן וסדרתי כל פ' ופ' על מתכונתה זו אחר זו כפי סדר המקרא. f. 314r

References

[Torat-Natan_1884]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 318 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Nathan Spira. Torath Nathan. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,999.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 110: 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, back flyleaf (ii)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

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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. 800.

Bibliography

    [Torat-Natan_1884] Shapira, -1662 Natan, and נתן נטע בן ראובן דוד שפירא. 'Sefer Torat Natan ... : Ṿe-Hu Ḥibur ʿal Maʾamre Ha-Zohar Ṿe-Khitve Ha-Ari / Shelomoh ... Heʿetiḳu ... Mi-Kh.y. Mamash ... Asher Ḥibero Natan Shapira.'Lemberg: UWSalat, 1884.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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