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Add MS 26940

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032-003370308
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Add MS 26940
Title:
Collection of halakhical writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
44 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1778
End Date:
1778
Date Range:
1778
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aboab, Samuel ben Abraham, 1610-1694
Aboab, Samuel ben Abraham, 1610-1694
Giuseppe Almanzi
Jacob Bellilos
Patsifiḳo, Yitsḥaḳ, 1700-1799
Patsifiḳo, Yitsḥaḳ, 1700-1799
בליליוס, יעקב
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Add MS 26940

Collection of halakhical writings

Contents

Halakhic writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-22r
Title: Tiḳun soferim
Title: תקון סופרים

A tract based on a decision found in Devar Shemuel of Samuel ben Abraham Aboab. On folio 3v is a haskamah of Jacob Aboab, then follow two teshuvot by Moses Zacuto. Folio 17 contains haskamot from the rabbis of Venice yeshivah, with voting results provided on folio 18r. Folio 18v begins a teshuvah of Isaac Pacifico.

Author: Aboab, Samuel ben Abraham, -1694 אבוהב, שמואל בן אברהם
ff. 22v-27r
Title: Binyan ne῾arim
Title: בנין נערים
Author: Jacob Bellilos בליליוס, יעקב

A refutation of the preceding work, dated 1734.

ff. 27v-44v
Title: Setirat zekenim
Title: סתירת זקנים
Author: Pacifico, Isaac ben Asher פציפיקו, יצחק בן אשר

A reply to the preceding work, dated 1778.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 44 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

44 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36 40

Written lines: 36 40

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Samuel Aboab. Tikkun Sopherim. Etc. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,940.'

History

Origin: 1778 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile; his manuscript no. 48: 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Asher and 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26940 (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. 558.

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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