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Or 2859

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032-003376302
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Or 2859
Title:
Sefer Or Zaru῾a, vol. 1
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
291 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2859 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham Segre
Bart[olomeo] Rocca di Praterino
Isaac ben Moses, 1200-1270
Isaac ben Moses, 1200-1270
Natanael Diodato Segre
R. N. Rabinowitz
Samson Segre
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2859

Sefer Or Zaru῾a, vol. 1

Contents

Volume 1 of the Sefer Or Zaru῾a of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-291v
Title: Sefer Or zaruʻa
Title: ספר אור זרוע
Author: Isaac ben Moses, of Vienna, 1200-1270 יצחק בן משה, מוינה

Folio 2r contains a title and a table of contents.

Filiation: Cf volume 2 of this manuscript, [BL] Or. 2860 (Margoliouth, no. 531).
ff. 3r-13r
Title: Alfa beta
ff. 13r-23r
Title: Hilkhot tsedaḳah
ff. 23r-110r
Title: Masekhet Bava ḳama
ff. 110r-220r
Title: Masekhet Bava metsiʻa
ff. 220r-291v
Title: Masekhet Bava batra

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 291 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 495 × 340 mm.
Dimensions (written): 350 × 220 mm.
Foliation:

291 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 47

Written lines: 46

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and ruling in pencil, page by page.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable.

Last line written within ruling.

Initial words in larger semi-cursive script.

Hebrew foliation in a later hand in the upper left-hand corner of each recto.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaac ben Moses. Or Zaru'a Hag-Gadol. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2859.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

An Italian note, signed by Bart[olomeo] Rocca di Praterino, giving permission to Avraham Segre to use the book according to his will: folio 291v.

A legal document in Italian, on the quarto paper leaf attached on guard at the end of the voume, dated 16 Marheshvan 5503 (13 November 1742). Samson Segre agrees to print the manuscript together with Jacob London and Isaac Berakhyah Kanton, in Amsterdam, London, or elsewhere.

Inner side of folio 1r (front flyleaf): descriptions on modern paper of two works by Natanael Diodato Segre (῾Atarat tiferet Savoya and Nezer ha-ḳodesh mi-Savoya). The Duke Charles Emmanuel is therein extolled. Dated 1622.

1885-04-18

R. N. Rabinowitz: purchased from him by the British Library on 18 April 1885: inscribed, folio [293v].

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_2859 (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. 530.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

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