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Title:
Midrashim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
216 folios (ii+216+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1714
End Date:
1715
Date Range:
1714-1715
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Giuseppe Almanzi
Lampronti, Isaac Hezekiah ben Samuel, 1679-1756
Lampronti, Isaac Hezekiah ben Samuel, 1679-1756
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Midrashim

Contents

Summary of Contents: A book of short musarim, or ethical discourses, on the pericopes of the Pentateuch, composed in Italian by Isaac Lampronti, and translated into Hebrew by his pupils.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-216v
Title: Documenti insegnati
Author: Lampronti, Isaac Hezekiah ben Samuel, 1679-1756 לאמפרונטי, יצחק בן שמואל

Folio 1r is a title page.

At the end of the various musarim there are the signatures of Lampronti's pupils, in their Hebrew and Italian names.

Letters in Italian, relating to the death of Yosef Ḥayim, and to other subjects are found on folios 61, 62, 111, 112, 115.

There are two Hebrew letters on folios 113-114 composed by pupils of Isaac Lampronti.

Folios 58v-60v, 63v-69v, 117v, 159r-160v and 214-215 are occupied with shorter exercises in translation from Italian into Hebrew.

The whole volume is planned as a book of exercises in Hebrew composition.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 216 folios (ii+216+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 301 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in pencil, running from LEFT TO RIGHT.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each, unsigned.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Many pages left entirely or half blank.

Various handwritings and layouts.

Hand(s)

Latin and Italian cursive script of the 18th century. Many different hands.

f. 1r - written probably by the author (a partial autograph).

Additions:

Folio 33v and back flyleaf (i) - doodle pages.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'R. Isac Lampronti Documenti. Hebrew Italian. Brit. Mus. Additional MS 26,895.'

History

Origin: 1714-1715 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 4: inscribed, front flyleaf (ii)r; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853.

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

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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. 384.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL