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Add MS 19779

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032-003371856
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19779
Title:
Sefer Meshiv nefesh by Menahem Meiri
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
240 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19779 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1459
End Date:
1459
Date Range:
1459
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ibn Baso
M. Aschkenazi
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Menaḥem ben Sa῾id
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19779

Sefer Meshiv nefesh by Menahem Meiri

Contents

Ethical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-240v
Title: Sefer Meshiv nefesh
Title: ספר משיב נפש
Author: Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306 המאירי, מנחם בן שלמה

Divided in two parts, the first consisting of 12 chapters, and the second of 13 chapters. The original indications of chapters in the left hand upper corner of the rectos have been for the most part preserved.

Colophon: והיתה השלמתו ע"י צעיר התלמידים אברהם ן' באסו שמונה ימים לחדש תשרי שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים ועשרים לבריאת עולם השם יזכני לחזור בתשובה שלי[מ?]ה לפניו קודם שאמות ואזכה לעסוק בתורתו ובמצותיו כל ימי בארצו הקדו[ש'?] [ל?]שמה במהרה בימי. ולפי שכתבתיהו חתמתי שמי פה אברהם באסו. f. 240v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 240 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 92 mm.
Foliation:

240 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Folio 154 and 231 have been foliated twice.

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 leaves each.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning, and a lacuna after folio 4.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Last word of each page repeated at the beginning of the following page.

Some marginal additions.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Avraham ibn Baso: inscribed in the colophon, folio 240v.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Menahem ben Solomon Meiri. Meshibh Nephesh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,779.'

History

Origin: 1459 Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Menaḥem ben Sa῾id: inscribed, folio 86r.

1854-04-08

M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: 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_19779 (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. 872.

Funding of Cataloguing

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