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Or 1068

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032-003372027
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Or 1068
Title:
Pesaḳim of Isaiah of Trani, the younger
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
130 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giuseppe Almanzi
Yeshaʿyah ʾAharon,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/293743688
Yitsḥaḳ Leṿi
Yosef ῾Azulai
ישעיה בן אליהו, דטראני
῾Azariah Ḥayim ben Sanguinetti
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Or 1068

Pesaḳim of Isaiah of Trani, the younger

Contents

Pesaḳim of Isaiah of Trani, the younger, on the treatises of Sanhedrin, Makot, Shevu῾ot, and ῾Avodah zarah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-130v
Title: Pesaḳim
Title: פסקים
Author: Isaiah ben Elijah, di Trani, -approximately 1280 ישעיה בן אליהו, דטראני
Filiation: Cf. [http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/47fb67cf-b179-4f9f-93d9-862e15c65262] Oxford, Bodleian,Laud Or. 322 ( [Neubauer_1891] 643).
ff. 2r-54r
Title: Sanhedrin
ff. 54r-64v
Title: Makot
ff. 64v-95v
Title: Shevu῾ot
ff. 95v-130v
Title: ῾Avodah zarah

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 130 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

130 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

13 complete quires of 8 and 10 leaves, and 1 incomplete quire of 8 leaves at the end.

Catchwords, marking the end of the quires, partially cut away in the trimming.

Condition

Incomplete at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios distinguishable.

Last line written outside ruling.

Chapter initials given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaiah of Trani. Pesakim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1068.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 2r: a notice of the presentation of the manuscript by ῾Azariah Ḥayim ben Sanguinetti to Yosef ῾Azulai, in cursive Sefardi script.

Yitsḥaḳ Leṿi: inscribed in an Italian cursive scipt (folio 2r).

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 130v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 28: 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_1997] 131-153).

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_1068 (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. 525.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1891] Neubauer, Adolf. 'Petite Grammaire Hébraïque Provenant de Yemen, Texte Arabe Publíe d’après Les Manuscrits Connus'. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1891.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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