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Add MS 26935
- Record Id:
- 032-003370304
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26935
- Title:
- Responses and letters addressed to Moses Provençal
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 36 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26935 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1500-1699
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26935
Responses and letters addressed to Moses Provençal
Contents
Responses and letters addressed to Moses Provençal.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-36vTitle: ResponsesTitle: שאלות ותשובותThe contents are arranged into 5 sections: Yesode ha-Torah (begins on folio 2r), Yesode ha-Torah (folio 3v), Yesode ha-Torah (14r), Gerushin (folio 15r), Gerushin (folio 20v).
The letter of enquiry in the first section was written by Reuven ben David of Perugia, dated 1569. The first section on Gerushin contains the letter of enquiry written by Yosef Treves of Sevilliano, dated 1571. Enclosed is a letter addresd by the writer to Shelomoh Kats of Mantua. The last section (on Gerushin) contains also a latter addressed by Moses Provençal to heads of talmudic academies in Jerusalem and Safed; several communications addressed to Moses Provençal by his nephew Abraham Provençal; and a letter by Barukh Aziel Haschetto (dated 1554), on folio 31r.
On folio 36r begins a piece on rules regarding lulav and etrog, at the beginning of which the manuscript breaks off.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 36 foliosDimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.Dimensions (written): 135 × 95 mm.Foliation:36 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 6 leaves each.
Condition
Slightly stained.
Imperfect at the end.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 28
Written lines: 28
Uniform layout.
Hard-point vertical ruling visible.
Catchwords on every page.
Has original Hebrew foliation.
Some marginal notes and additions are present.
Hand(s)
Italian cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.
Additions:Folio 1r is a doodle page.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine title: 'Moses Provinciale. Teshuboth. Etc. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,935.'
History
Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 43: 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, folio [38v].
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_26935 (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. 578.Bibliography
[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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