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Title:
Rav pe῾alim by Joseph Zarka
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
346 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1450-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham (Joseph Solomon ben Mordecai) Graziano
Camillo Jaghel
Renato da Modena
Samuel Schönblum
Zarḳa, Yosef, 1700-1799
Zarḳa, Yosef, 1700-1799
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Or 75

Rav pe῾alim by Joseph Zarka

Contents

Grammatical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-346v
Title: Rav pe῾alim
Title: רב פעלים

The work starts with a preface, followed by a table of contents (folio 3r). The first part begins on folio 3v, the second on folio 24r, the thirs on folio 141r, the fourth on folio 289v.

Folios 336v-338v contain an account of the accents, illustrated by verses from the Psalms abd other parts of Scripture.

Folios 338v-341r contain a fuller table of contents than the one fiven at the beginning.

Folios 341v-342v contain a paradigm of binyan ḳal, with explanations.

On folio 346v are given the names of the accents, and also a medical recipe.

There is the author's colophon copied on folio 336r, stating that the work was finished in 5189 (1429).

Author: Zarka, Joseph זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה
Incipit: הפסוקים שהביא הרד"ק ז"ל בספר השרשים ולא נמצאו. f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 346 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150/135 × 92/80 mm.
Foliation:

346 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Condition

Foxing at edges.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Occasional catchwords.

Very wide margins, frequently with notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi and Italian semi-cursive scripts of the latter part of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather.

Spine: 'Joseph Zark. Rab Pe'alim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 75.'

History

Origin: 1450-1499 2nd half of the 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Abraham (Joseph Solomon ben Mordecai) Graziano of Modena ("Ish Ger"), (d. 1684), Italian rabbi: inscribed, folio 1r, 2r.

Illegible inscriptions of former owners, folio 1r.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 133v, 342v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Renato da Modena: inscribed with his name, 1626 (folio 346v); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchsed from him by the British Museum on 22 April 1868: 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_75 (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. 974.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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