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Add MS 27109

Record Id:
032-003370327
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Add MS 27109
Title:
Teḥilat davar by Joseph Concio
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
92 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27109 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1605
End Date:
1606
Date Range:
1605-1606
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Concio, Joseph ben Gerson, 1550-1628
Concio, Joseph ben Gerson, 1550-1628
Giuseppe Almanzi
Joseph Almanzi
Joseph ben Gerson Concio
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27109

Teḥilat davar by Joseph Concio

Contents

Philosophical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-92v
Title: Teḥilat davar: ḥibur be-ḥokhmat ha-higayon
Title: תחלת דבר : חבור בחכמת ההגיון
Author: Concio, Joseph ben Gerson, -1628 קונציו, יוסף בן גרשם

A treatise on logic. An autograph, with frequent corrections by the author himself. The work consists of a preface, intrudiction and two chapters.

The work ends with a list of syllogisms with the usual designations on one side (in Latin script), and with Hebrew terms on the other.

Folios 89r-91v contain a table of contents, and on folio 92r there is an additional piece with some rhymed lines at the end.

Colophon: נכתב ונשלם פה ק"ק אסטיתמוז שס"הלפ"ק שלי הצעיר יוסף קונציו. f. 91v
Colophon: והשלמתיה כפי המכוון פה ק"ק אסטיבחדש השלישי בשנת שלש מאות וששים ושש לאלף הששי. f. 92r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 92 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

92 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of 20 to 24 leaves each.

Condition

Dark tidemarks at edges. Usage stains.

Ink smears and some pen trials on text leaves.

Occasional worming.

Corroding ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 21

Written lines: 16 21

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical hard-point ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every page.

Scribblings and pen trials on folios 48v-49r, 72v-73r.

Folio 2 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century. Joseph ben Gerson Concio: inscribed with his name in the colophon and a subscription, folios 91v, 92r.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Techillath Dibber. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,109.'

History

Origin: 1605-1606 Italy, N. (Asti)

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r: a former owner's note, Joseph Almanzi.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 215: 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, back flyleaf (iii)v.

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_27109 (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. 923.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL