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Record Id:
032-003370306
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Add MS 26938
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
401 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ya'akov Kats
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26938

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentatuech, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-401v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew
Colophon: ירא[?] ה' את עמלי ואת יגיעי היום סיימתי חומש הרביעי למי שירצה לקנות ספרים יצבר לי כסף חמרים חמרים עד שאומר די והותר בזה יקנה לראשו כתר'. f. 400v

Inscription at the end of the manuscript, folio 400v: ‘פדות ובא גואל’, with some emblematic characters on each side.

ff. 1r-103v
Title: Genesis
ff. 103v-191v
Title: Exodus
ff. 191v-250v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 250v-332v
Title: Numbers
ff. 332v-400v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 401 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

401 folios (+3 unfoliated folios at the beginning and 4 at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quire.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

No masoretic comments.

Visible difference between hair side and flesh side of the leaf.

Visible ruling with pencil.

The first word of each book written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian square script, punctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya'akov Kats: inscribed with his name, folio 401r, with a date of 421 (1661).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 46: inscribed (folio [406v]); 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).

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26938 (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. 97.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

BL