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032-003370295
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Add MS 26922
Title:
Collection of rabbinical texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
286 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1534
End Date:
1534
Date Range:
1534
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CE
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Names:
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, rabbi, scholar, 1260-1340
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, rabbi, scholar, 1260-1340
Ben Shushan, Yosef, 1300-1399
Ben Shushan, Yosef, 1300-1399
David Hasun
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Shem Tov, Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov, 1400-1499
Ibn Shem Tov, Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov, 1400-1499
Joseph, 1250-1349
Joseph, de Hamadan, active 13th century-14th century (?)
Shelomoh ben Mosheh Alḳabets
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Add MS 26922

Collection of rabbinical texts

Contents

Summary of Contents: Sefer ha-ḥesheḳ by Joseph of Hamadan, a commentary on Pirḳe avot by Yosef ibn Shushan, Pereḳ mishnah by Shem Ṭov ibn Shem Ṭov, Nefesh he-ḥakhamah by Moses de Leon, and Perush masekhet Avot by Baḥya ben Asher.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-99r
Title: Sefer ha-ḥesheḳ
Title: ספר החשק
Author: Joseph, de Hamadan, active 13th century-14th century (?) יוסף משושן הבירה (?)

Consists a kabbalistic exposition of the Tabernacle (openning verses of Exodus 25), the Song of Songs and the first chapter of Ezekiel.

From folio 1r to 27r the language is Hebrew, the rest being Aramaic.

Folios 1r-3r and 10r-12r are arranged peculiarly in two columns, the continuation of the left-hand column of folio 3r being the right-hand column of folio 1r, and from the right-hand column of folio 12r one has to turn to the right-hand column of folio 10r. Cf. the manner of writing of Mandaitic texts.

ff. 99r-190r
Title: פרוש פרקי אבות
Title: A commentary on Pirḳe avot
Author: Ben Shushan, Yosef, active 14th century בן שושן, יוסף

Fragments only.

The author quotes Maimonides quite frequently, but also gives opinions from the standpoint of kabbalah.

ff. 190r-201r
Title: פרק משנה
Title: Pereḳ mishnah

A fragment only.

Author: Ibn Shem Tov, Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov, active 15th century אבן שם טוב, שם טוב בן יוסף
ff. 201r-217r
Title: פירוש
Title: Perush

A kabbalistic commentary on various topics. Anonymous.

ff. 217r-286r
Title: פירוש מסכת אבות
Title: Perush Masekhet avot
Author: Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, ?-1340 בחיי בן אשר אבן חלאוה
Colophon: נשלם בעזרת ה' וישועתו זה הפירוש מפרקי אבות לרבי' בחיי בדיין יום שלישי י"ג לחדש אייר שנת ה'ר'צ'ד' ליצירה והסימן דרכיו ראיתי ו'א'ר'פ'א'ה'ו' על ידי הצעיר הנאנח דוד חסון והוא לחכם שלם ה"ר שלמה הלוי בכ"ר החכם השלם ר' משה הלוי אלקאבץ י'צ'ו'ב' השם יזכהו להגות בו וכו'. במתא סאלוניקי: f. 286r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 286 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 6 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Slightly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Written text arranged in one and occasionally two columns.

Some letterforms distinguished from the written text, see 50v-60v.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. David Hasun: inscribed in a note (folio 157v).

Additions:

A scribal note, folio 157v: ‘ואני דוד חסון הכותב אומ'’:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: ''Anonymous Cabalistic Treatises. Commentaries on Pirke Abhoth by Joseph Ibn Shoshan and Bahya ben Asher. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,922.'

History

Origin: 1534 Greece (Salonica/Thessaloniki)

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh ben Mosheh Alḳabets: inscribed, folio 286r.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 30b; 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, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 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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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. 464.

Funding of Cataloguing

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