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Title:
Nathan ben Jehiel's Arukh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
400 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Names:
Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110
Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110
Samuel Schönblum
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Nathan ben Jehiel's Arukh

Contents

A talmudic lexicon.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-400v
Title: ῾Arukh
Title: ערוך
Author: Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110 נתן בן יחיאל, מרומה, 1035-1103

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. The rhymed entries between the alphabetical sections are found throughout the manuscript.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 1264-1265.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 400 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

400 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

40 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and signatures in Hebrew letters at the end.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Light and damp damage at edges.

Occasional darkening into margins.

A little rodent damage at edge.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 41

Written lines: 33 41

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Many leaves irregularly shaped, with parts sometimes left unused.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 11th to 12th century.

Binding

Pre-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Nathan ben Jechiel. Arukh Sive Lexicon Talmudicum. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 26,881.'

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th-12th century Italy, N. (Trieste)

Provenance and Acquisition

1865-08-24

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchased by the British Museum on 24 August 1865: 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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26881 (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. 957.

Funding of Cataloguing

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