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Title:
Ḥidushim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
89 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shemu᾿el Casani
Yehudah Ha-Kohen Ashkenazi
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Add MS 27130

Ḥidushim

Contents

Contains Novellae on the tractate Ḳidushin.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-89v
Title: Ḥidushim
Title: חדושים

The work might have been written by a contemporary of Nahmanides. The work quotes several rabbinic authorities, including Shelomoh ben Aderet, Shimshon of Sens, Alfasi, Yitsḥaḳ Abba Mari and Maimonides.

Of the novellae on the last chapter, only a small portion has been copied.

Folio 1, which is vellum, and belongs to the 12th or 13th century, contains a fragment of a tractate Berakhot (part of folio 34 in the printed editions).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 89 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170/185 × 115/120 mm.
Foliation:

89 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 5 leaves each.

Condition

Some of the quires are incomplete.

Partly worm-eaten.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 32

Written lines: 2032

Catchwords on every verso, partially cut away.

Chapter titles given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century, badly written in parts.

Additions:

Folios 2r and 98v contain doodles.

Folios 1r-1v belong to a different manuscript (vellum).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Chiddushim 'al Kiddushin. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,130.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Yehudah Ha-Kohen Ashkenazi: inscribed, folio 1r, 3r.

Shemu᾿el Casani (?): inscribed in a note of sale, folio 1r.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 237: 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: 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=Add_MS_27130 (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. 428.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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