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Add MS 26949

Record Id:
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Add MS 26949
Title:
Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
310 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26949 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1581
End Date:
1581
Date Range:
1581
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Boniforte del Asinary
Giuseppe Almanzi
Hieronimus Carolus
Shelomoh ben Shemu῾el of Rossina
Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26949

Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah

Contents

Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-310v
Title: Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah
Title: ספר הפליאה
Colophon: נשלמה מלאכת עבודת הקדש זאת ע"י הצעיר שלמה יצ"ו בן המנוח כמ"ה שמואל מרושינה זצ"ל לכבוד והדר המשכיל והנדון כ"מ יעקב פוייטיצ"ו פה אסטי כ"ד לחדש מנחם שנת שמ"א לפ"ק פרש' כי עם קדוש אתה לה'. f. 310v

References

אורון,מיכל. הקנה והפליאה. 1977.
Avigdor Ḳara mi-Prag, Sefer ha-peliʾah: ṿe-hu sefer ha-kinah. Zupniḳ Ḳnoller ʿeṭ Hammershmidṭ 1883.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 310 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

310 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Slightly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words and divine names given in larger square characters.

Additions and corrections given in the margin.

Lacunae in the text indicated by blank spaces.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive of the 16th century. Shelomoh ben Shemu῾el of Rossina: inscribed in the colophon, folio 310v.

Additions:

Binding

Pre-1600. Dark brown leather, blind-tooled, with remains of clasps. Boxed.

Spine: 'Sefer Hap-Peliah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,949.'

History

Origin: 1581 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 310v.

Censored by Boniforte del Asinary: Italian censor (active 1575-1599 in Asti): inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per me Boniforte del Asinari: inscribed (folio 310v).

Censored by Hieronimus Carolus: inscribed with his name: 'Fr. Hier. Carolus Asti Die 19 Febr. 1582': inscribed (folio 310v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 58: 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 (i)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_26949 (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. 791.

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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