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Or 1016

Record Id:
032-003372020
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032-003372020
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1016
Title:
Collection of grammatical writings.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
94 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1016 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
Mordekhai ben Hillel
ha-Nakdan, Shimshon, 1200-1299
ha-Nakdan, Shimshon, 1200-1299
מרדכי בן הלל (מחבר משוער)
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1016

Collection of grammatical writings.

Contents

Grammatical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-14v
Title: Mafteaḥ ha-diḳduḳ
Title: מפתח הדקדוק

For the attribution of this work to Mordekhai, see 'Leshonenu' 43 (1979), p. 107 and 'Masorot' 5-6 (1991), pp. 28-30.

Author: Mordekhai ben Hillel מרדכי בן הלל (מחבר משוער)
ff. 14v-78r
Author: Shimshon ha-Nakdan, 13th century שמשון הנקדן
Title: Ha-Shimshoni (Ḥibur ha-ḳonim)
Title: השמשוני (חבור הקונים)

See further 'Leshonenu' 43 (1979), pp. 100-111, 201-210; and 'Masorot' 5-6 (1991), pp. 20-24.

f. 1r, 9v, 17v, 20v, 23v, 24r, 31v, 39v, 40r, 47v, 48r, 55v, 63v, 71v, 79r, 79v, 83v, 86v, 87r, 92r Figures of animals and hybrids on the lower margin, marking the beginning and end of each quire, in pen and ink.

ff. 78v-92r
Title: Ḥiburim ḳetsarim be-῾inyane masorah ṿe-diḳduḳ
Title: חבורים קצרים בעייני מסורה ודקדוק

f. 92r Green panel covering an erasure.

ff. 92v-93r
Title: Sefer ha-ḥiluḳ
Title: ספר החילוק
Incipit: זה ספר נקרא ספר החילוק. f. 92v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 94 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

94 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

12 quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end, and with pen-and ink designs at the beginning and at the end.

Condition

Stained and slightly damaged by damp.

Lacuna after folio 82.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Hash-Shimshoni. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1016.'

Accompanying Material

Folio 1 and 94 are paper, and do not form part of the original manuscript.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 24 November 1869: 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1016 (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. 969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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