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Add MS 23974
- Record Id:
- 032-003371881
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- Add MS 23974
- Title:
- A fragment of a prayer book and a collection of halakhical works
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 032-003371881
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 366 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_23974 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1409
- Date Range:
- 1300-1409
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 23974
A fragment of a prayer book and a collection of halakhical works
Contents
Summary of Contents: A fragment of a prayer book and a collection of halakhical works: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan of Isaac of Corbeil, Hilkhot nidah of Isaac of Dueren, a compendium of Isur ve-heter of Isaac of Dueren by Susman of Regensburg, a compendium of the Or zaru'a of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna and Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh of Jacob ben Asher.Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-10vTitle: SidurTitle: סידורA fragment of a prayer book, giving the principal portions of the services for the sabbath and festivals, and also embodying a series of hosh῾anot.
ff. 10v-83vTitle: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭanTitle: ספר מצות קטןPreceded by a list of the sections, which number 288.
The appended geṭ is dated 5098 (1338), which might correspond to the date of the manuscript, but it is more likely that the date is copied from an older codex, and that the present copy belongs to the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century.
ff. 83v-86rTitle: Hilkhot nidahFiliation: Cf Add. 18685 part IV (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 513).ff. 86r-90rTitle: Isur ṿe-heterA compendium in 36 paragraphs redacted by Sussman of Regensburg.
ff. 90r-222rTitle: Or zaru῾aIdentical with Simane or zaru῾a in Add. 27297 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 532).
ff. 222r-366vTitle: Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-RoshBreaks off very near the end of Simane nidah.
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentExtent: 366 foliosDimensions (leaf): 306 × 230 mm.Dimensions (written): 225 × 152 mm.Foliation:366 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Original Hebrew foliation, partially trimmed away.
Collation
Quires of 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.
Condition
Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
Stained (especially first 7 leaves).
Layout
Columns:2
Ruled lines: 39
Written lines: 38
Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a plummet (each bifolium on both sides).
Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios indistinguishable. Fine parchment.
Last line written within the ruling.
Catchwords at the end of the quires.
Initial words in large characters, some of the letters written in red ink.
Occasional marginal notes.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 14th to 15th century.
Binding
Post-1600. Brown leather binding, blind tooled, with clasps. Boxed.
Spine title: 'R. Isaaci de Korbeil. Liber Siman. R. Isaaci fil. Mosis Viennensis. Liber or Sarca. Etc. Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Iure Emptionis. 23,974.'
History
Origin: 1300-1409 France?Provenance and Acquisition
J. Leves: purchased from him by the British Museum on 13 October 1860: 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_23974 (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. 516.Funding of Cataloguing
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