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Title:
Samuel Portaleone's Derashot
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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:
376 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1640
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
1640
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha, 1600-1699
Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha, 1600-1699
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Add MS 27123

Samuel Portaleone's Derashot

Contents

Summary of Contents: The commentaries of Samuel ben Elisa Portaleone on the weekly sections of the Pentateuch, preceded by two, and followed by a larger number of midrashic homilies on various subjects (autograph).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-376v
Title: Derashot
Title: דרשות
Author: שער אריה, שמואל בן אלישע Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 376 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Several folios slightly mutilated.

Slightly stained.

The ink has occasionally eaten through the pages.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Catchowords on every verso.

Uniform layout.

Blank pages left between folios 357-368.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

Folio 6v - an index of the derashot that follow those on the sections of the Pentateuch.

Folio 376v - a note stating that nothing offensive against the Bible is contained in the present book.

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram.

Spine title: 'Samuel Portaleone. Derashoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 123.'

History

Origin: 1640 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 230: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v; 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin 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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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. 382.

Funding of Cataloguing

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