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Or 10677

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Title:
Ḳiryat sefer by Menahem Meiri
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
84 folios (ii+84+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
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Or 10677

Ḳiryat sefer by Menahem Meiri

Contents

Summary of Contents: Menahem ben Solomon Meiri's Ḳiryat sefer, a Masoretic work on the method of writing scrolls of the Law, in two parts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-84v
Author: Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306 המאירי, מנחם בן שלמה
Title: קרית ספר
Title: Ḳiryat sefer
Incipit: אמר מנחם בר שלמה לבית מאיר

Incomplete at the end.

Maniculae on f. 15v, 29r, .

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; crown with six-pointed star and cresent on top (e.g. ff. 8-9).
Extent: 84 folios (ii+84+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Ff. 61b recto and verso, 76v, 76b recto and verso are blank.

Collation

11 quires: i4, ii-vii8, viii8+1 (?), ix10-1 (?), x-xi8.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains.

Water damage.

Ff. 1-3 are torn at the edges but have been restored.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout. Section headings are written in larger, square characters.

Text at the end of sections is often written in a triangular shape (e.g. ff. 27v, 34v).

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Black cloth binding. Boxed.

Spine: 'קרית ספר - מאירי 176'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 176: inscribed with his name on ff. 1r, 84v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 30 January 1928.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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