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Add MS 19777

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032-003371855
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Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19777
Title:
Zikhron ṭov by Nathan ibn Tibbon
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
152 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19777 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1426
End Date:
1426
Date Range:
1426
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Names:
Avraham ben Shemu᾿el Fi᾿avi
D. Nutt
Ibn Tibbon, Nathan ben Shemu᾿el        
M. Aschkenazi
Ya῾aḳov ben Shemu᾿el
אבן תבון, נתן בן שמואל
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19777

Zikhron ṭov by Nathan ibn Tibbon

Contents

A philosophical commentary on selected passages of the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-181v
Title: Zikhron ṭov
Title: זכרון טוב
Author: Ibn Tibbon, Nathan ben Shemu᾿el         אבן תבון, נתן בן שמואל
Colophon: כ"א [י]מים לחדש אדר שנת הקפ"ו ליצירה כתבתי אני אברהם בר' שמואל פיאבי י"ל זה הספר לר' יעקב י"ל בר' שמואל נ"ע השם יזכי?[הו?] להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו אנ"ס תם. f. 153v

A decorated catchword on every verso, only partially preserved. f. 3v, 9v, 12v, 30v

ff. 1r-2v
Title: Poem
ff. 2v-4r
Title: Two fragments of commentary
ff. 4r-4v
Title: Introduction
ff. 4v-29v
Title: Genesis
ff. 29v-73v
Title: Exodus
ff. 74r-94v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 94v-126r
Title: Numbers
ff. 126r-153v
Title: Deuteronomy
f. 153v
Title: A poem
ff. 154r-154v
Title: Notes

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 152 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 199 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

155 folios (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end; last two foliated folios are paper).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords on every verso.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

The beginning of each parashah is given in large characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Byzantine) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Avraham ben Shemu᾿el Fi᾿avi: inscribed in the colophon, 5186: folio 153v.

ff. 154r-154v
due to a later Sefardi Oriental hand.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1426 Byzantium

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Shemu᾿el: inscribed in the colophon, folio 153v.

1854-04-08

M. Aschkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854; inscribed: [156v].

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_19777 (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. 215.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL