Provenance and Acquisition

῾Aminadav bar Shelomoh (owner) of Fano, Avraham bar ῾Aminadav Yisra᾿el (owner) of Fano, and Me᾿ir bar Me᾿ir bar Ḳalonymus (owner): inscribed on f. 1r.

A note in Hebrew, dated 165 (1405): f. 1v.

Folio 2r contains the titles of the works contained in the volume, together with the authors' names.Former owners' notes, illegible: f. 2r.

A record of a loan, dated [5]293 (1533), f. 272v.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano (censor), Italian censor (active in the last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1599 (f. 271v); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, page 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto (censor), Italian censor (active in the first quarter of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1628 (f. 271v); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, page 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (owner) (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 3: 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, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin Bookseller, Anglophile, and Friend to Panizzi” (1997), page 131-153); inscribed, folio fse002r. 1865-10-14 Giuseppe Almanzi (owner) (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 3: 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, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin Bookseller, Anglophile, and Friend to Panizzi” (1997), page 131-153); inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v .