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Or 1485

Record Id:
032-003374509
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Or 1485
Title:
Collection of ethical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
37 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1485 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ibn Ḥasdai, Abraham ben Samuel, 1200-1299
Ibn Ḥasdai, Abraham ben Samuel, 1200-1299
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1485

Collection of ethical works

Contents

Ethical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8v
Title: Mivḥar ha-peninim
Title: מבחר הפנינים

A collection of ethical sayings ascribed to Solomon ibn Gabirol and translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Yehudah ibn Tibbon. The main text is accompanied by a commentary.

Filiation: Cf. the same work in Add MS 18684 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 514), Add MS 18226 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 865) and Or 2396 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 867).
ff. 9r-37v
Title: Ben ha-melekh ṿeha-nazir
Title: בן המלך והנזיר
Author: Ibn Ḥasdai, Abraham ben Samuel, ha-Levi, active 13th century חסדאי, אברהם בן שמואל אבן

A Hebrew adaptation of an Arabic recension of the anceint Indian story of "Bilauhar and Budasif".

Colophon: נזיר ובן המלך נשלם משליהם \ חכמת לבביהם מוסר תבונתם \ חקוק עלי לבב נכתב עלי ספר \ מבטא שפתיהם משל וחדותם. f. 37r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 37 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchword at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 38 42

Written lines: 38 42

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters, partly in red ink.

Visible pencil ruling.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sefer Ha-Nazir. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1485.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century France

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: 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_1485 (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. 866.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL