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Record Id:
032-003370294
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Add MS 26920
Title:
Sefer ha-rimon.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
113 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1565
End Date:
1565
Date Range:
1565
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Moses ben Shem Tov de Leon, 1250-1305
Moses ben Shem Tov de Leon, 1250-1305
Mosheh ben Makhluf Ag'man
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26920

Sefer ha-rimon.

Contents

Kabbalistic work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-114v
Title: Sefer ha-rimon
Title: ספר הרמון
Author: Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305 משה בן שם טוב, די לאון

The manuscript was previously bound together with MS Oxford-Bodleian 1624 (Or zaru῾a) and MS Paris Bibliotheque Nationale 47A, see Richler 1987, pp. 116-117.

See also [Halamish_2000] 620.

Colophon: נשלם ספר הרמון מלא מצות כרמון שחברו מהר"ר משה די לאון תנצבה : וכתבתיהו אני הדל באלפי משה אג'ימאןמעיר הקדש צפת תוב"ב פה מצרים לנבון ומאוד נעלה נדיב ושוע כמה"ר יצחק סרוק נר"ו . והיתה השלמתו היום יום חמשי שבעה ימים לחדש מנחם שנת השכ"ה ליצירה השית יזכהו להגות בו ולזרעו כפי תאותו הטהורה אמן וכן יהי רצון . f. 113r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 113 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

113 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Some additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Mosheh ben Makhluf Ag'man: inscribed, folio 113r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Ha-Rimmon. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 26,920.'

History

Origin: 1565 Egypt (Cairo)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 29; 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 Asher & Co., Berlin 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_26920 (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. 759.
    Neubauer, A. 'The Literature o the Jews in Jemen', Jewish Quarterly Review 3 (1891): 604-622, esp. pp. 619-621.

Bibliography

    [Halamish_2000] חלמיש, משה. 'הקבלה בתפילה, בהלכה ובמנהג / משה חלמיש.'רמת גן: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, 2000.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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