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Title:
Mordecai Dato's Derashot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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202 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
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Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1590
End Date:
1592
Date Range:
1590-1592
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CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Dato, Mordecai ben Judah, rabbi, 1525-1601
Dato, Mordecai ben Judah, rabbi, 1525-1601
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Mordecai Dato's Derashot

Contents

Summary of Contents: A book of mostly kabbalistic commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and parts of Leviticus by Mordekhai Dato, written in Italian in Hebrew characters (an autograph).

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-202v
Title: Derashot
Title: דרשות
Author: Dato, Mordecai ben Judah, 1525- דאטו, מרדכי

The language of the commentary is mostly Italian, but the script and punctuation (partial) is Hebrew.

A short introduction is given on folio 2v.

In a note on folio 3v, the date of composition is given as 5351 (1591).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 202 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

202 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 older and 1 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Original quiring not established due to the modern restoration (leaves on guards).

Condition

Several folios slightly mutilated.

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 49

Written lines: 16 49

Uniform layout.

Nearly no side margins left by the scribe.

Many marginal notes and additions.

Scribal erasures (e.g. folio 53v).

Catchowords on most of the versos.

Folio 2r is a title-page.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

ff. 195r-202v
- some kabbalistic notes written by different hands.

ff. 62r-62v
- a few remarks on Job 1 by a different hand.

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram.

Spine title: 'Mordekhai Dato. Derashoth. Ital. Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 050.'

History

Origin: 1590-1592 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 156: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v; 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27050 (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. 380.

Funding of Cataloguing

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