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Add MS 26892
Title:
Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
331 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Menahem ben Kuzi
Yosef Kalonymus Kohen
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Add MS 26892

Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ

Contents

Fourth Book of Arba'ah Ṭurim, Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ, of Jacob ben Asher.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-331v
Title: Ṭur ḥoshen mishpaṭ
Title: טור חשן משפט
Author: Jacob ben Asher יעקב בן אשר

The number of paragraphs is 431.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 331 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 217 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly water-damaged (upper margins). Foxed.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible ink ruling, page by page.

Catchwords on every verso, sometimes modestly decorated with ink.

Initial word of each section written in larger characters. Section numbers given in margins, probably in later hand.

Last line written within ruling.

Some marginal notes in contemporary handwriting.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Jacob ben Asher. Tur Choshen Ham-Mishpat. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,892.'

Accompanying Material

The vellum leaf at the end contains a fragment of a Latin grammar and a fragment of a poem on moral conduct.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r contains part of a Latin document (in Italian handwriting) recording an award given by arbitrators in a dispute between Peter and John de Cumis (de Cumae in Italy?) on the one part, and Marinus Georgius Simon on the other (concerning a glass furnace): dated 11 March1456.

Folio 2r contains a record of sale of this manuscript from Menahem ben Kuzi and Yosef Kalonymus Kohen, of מונטייאנ' (Montagnana?).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 1: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): inscribed (folio [332v]).

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_26892 (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. 548.

Funding of Cataloguing

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