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Add MS 19787
Title:
Collection of liturgical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
125 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19787 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
D. Nutt
Duran, Simeon ben Ẓemaḥ, 1361-1444,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066346064,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/37714446
Duran, Simeon ben Ẓemaḥ, 1361-1444,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066346064,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/37714446
Isaac ben Todros, active 13th century
M. Aschkenazi
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
יצחק בן טודרוס
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19787

Collection of liturgical commentaries

Contents

A collection of liturgical commentaries.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-125v
Title: Ḳovets
Title: קובץ
ff. 1r-3r
Title: The commentary on Azharot

An anonymous commentary on the introductory lines to Solomon ibn Gabirol's Azharot.

ff. 3r-63r
Title: The commentary on Azharot
Author: Isaac ben Todros, active 13th century יצחק בן טודרוס
Filiation: Cf the contents of Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, MS hebr. 273 (no. 2).

The text comments upon Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol.

ff. 63r-111r
Title: The commentary on Azharot
Author: Duran, Simeon ben Ẓemaḥ, 1361-1444 דורן, שמעון בן צמח

The text, of which only a part has been preserved, comments upon the Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol. The date of composition is found on folio 100v.

ff. 111r-114r
Title: Yalḳut Shim῾oni

The text contains fragments of a recension of Yalḳut on the book of Ruth.

ff. 114r-120v
Title: Piyuṭ Natan ben Yitsḥaḳ

Maimonides is quoted on 114v, 119v.

ff. 120v-125v
Title: The commentary on Ruth
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 125 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 15 leaves each.

Condition

All the folios water-damaged.

Lacunae after folios 48, 88, 92, 96, 111, 113.

Folio 125 mutilated.

Only two small pieces of folio 124 preserved.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 24 25

Written lines: 24 25

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

Pre-1600, contemporary binding. Brown leather, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'R. Salomonis Gabirol. Azaroth Cum Comment. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19, 787.'

Accompanying Material

The fragments preserved as folios 124-125 come from a different manuscript.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1854-05-13

M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 13 May 1854: inscribed, folio [126v].

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_19787 (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. 697.

Funding of Cataloguing

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