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032-003370278
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Add MS 26900
Title:
Collection of biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
31 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Domenico Irosolimitano
Eliyahu
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Tibon, Natan ben Shemu᾿el
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
נתן בן שמואל
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26900

Collection of biblical commentaries

Contents

A set of commentaries on the biblical books and verses.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-31v
Title: Perushim
Title: פירושים
ff. 1r-8r
Title: Perush sodot
Title: פרוש סודות
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר

The commentaries have been compiled by an anonymous compiler.

ff. 8v-25v
Title: Extracts from the commentary on the Pentateuch
Author: Ibn Tibon, Natan ben Shemu᾿el נתן בן שמואל
Filiation: Cf. 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. 215.
ff. 25v-28r
Title: Commentary on Genesis 2:7
Author: Kimḥi, David קמחי, דוד בן יוסף
ff. 28r-31v
Title: Commentary on ma῾aseh merkavah
Author: Kimḥi, David קמחי, דוד בן יוסף

Contains some notes in Italian at the end, folio 31v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 31 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 298 × 214 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 168 mm.
Foliation:

31 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of irregular ammount of leaves.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 52 53

Written lines: 52 53

Additional notes and omissions supplied in the margins.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century. Eliyahu: inscribed with his name, folio f. 9r .

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Domenico Irosolimitano, Italian (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1599 (31v); see [Popper_1969] 61, 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1617 (30v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101 and appendices 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 9; 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed (folio [33v]).

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26900 (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. 236.

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

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