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Add MS 26902

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Add MS 26902
Title:
Yosef ben Avraham Ḥayun's commentary on Psalms
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
209 folios
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1524
Date Range:
1500-1524
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Don Yehudah Abravanel
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ḥayyun, Joseph ben Abraham, 1400-1499
Ḥayyun, Joseph ben Abraham, 1400-1499
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Add MS 26902

Yosef ben Avraham Ḥayun's commentary on Psalms

Contents

A commentary on the book of Psalms by Yosef ben Avraham Ḥayun.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-209v
Title: Perush Tehilim
Title: פרוש תהילים
Author: Ḥayyun, Joseph ben Abraham, -1497 חיון, יוסף בן אברהם

References

[Hayun_1522]

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 209 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 233 × 132 mm.
Foliation:

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

No folio 181 (number missed by original folio creator).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Catchwords on every verso.

Condition

First folio is partially damaged.

Several pages are water-stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

First words of each Psalm are given in large semi-cursive characters.

Watermarks of scale, similar to Briquet no. 2499, see volume 1 of [Briquet_1968] 185 and a lion or griffon, no. 10511, see volume 3 of [Briquet_1968] 540.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Chaiyun. Perush Tehillim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26902.'

History

Origin: 1500-1524 1500-1524

Provenance and Acquisition

Don Yehudah Abravanel: inscribed, folio 1r.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 11; 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 [211v]).

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. 229.

Bibliography

    [Hayun_1522] David ben Solomon Ibn Yaḥya approximately, and David Kimhi approximately approximately 1235. 'Sefer Tehilim : ʿim Perush R. Daṿid Kimḥi Ṿe-ʿim Perush R. Yosef Ḥayun (Mishle Perush Sefer Mishle Ha-Niḳra Ḳav Ṿe-Naḳi) [By David Ben Solomon Aben Yachya]'. Śaloniḳi: JGedaliah 1522, שילוניקי, 1522.
    [Briquet_1968] Charles Moïse BRIQUET. 'Les Filigranes. Dictionnaire Historique Des Marques Du Papier Des Leur Apparition Vers 1282 Jusqu’en 1600. A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material Contributed by a Number of Scholars. Edited by Allan Stevenson. (The New Briquet. Jubilee Edition.).'Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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