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Add MS 26923
Title:
Josiah Pinto's Sefer Maʾor ʿenayim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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118 folios
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Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Start Date:
1731
End Date:
1731
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1731
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Pinto, Josiah ben Joseph, 1565-1648
Pinto, Josiah ben Joseph, 1565-1648
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Add MS 26923

Josiah Pinto's Sefer Maʾor ʿenayim

Contents

Summary of Contents: The second part of Josiah Pinto's Meʾor ʿenayim, containing his commentary on Jacob Ḥabib's ʿEn Yaʿaḳov, from Yevamot to the end.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-172v
Title: Sefer Maʾor ʿenayim
Title: ספר מאור עינים
Author: Pinto, Josiah ben Joseph, 1565-1648 פינטו, יאשיהו בן יוסף, 1565-1648

References

[Pinto_1743]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 118 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 42

Written lines: 42

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words of each section given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Josiah Pinto. Comment. on the 'En Ya'akov. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,923.'

History

Origin: 1731 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 31: 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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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. 441.

Bibliography

    [Pinto_1743] Josiah ben Joseph Pinto. 'Sefer Meʾor Enayim : Ṿe-Hem Ḥidushe ... Yoshiyahu Pinṭo ʿal Ha-Ḥeleḳ Ha-Sheni Shel ʿEin Yaʿaḳov / ... Mosheh Najarah Le-Hadpiso ... .'מנטובה, בראש, Mantova, 1743.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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