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Or 16082

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Or 16082
Title:
Ets ḥayim by Aaron ben Elijah
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 folios (ii+118+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886
Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 16082

Ets ḥayim by Aaron ben Elijah

Contents

Karaite philosophical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118v
Author: Aaron ben Elijah, of Nicodemia, 1328?-1369 אהרן בן אליהו, מניקומדי
Title: עץ חיים
Title: Ets ḥayim

Title page on f. 1r with the date of the composition of the treatise (5106, that is 1345/6).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, (e.g. ff. 2, 3).
Extent: 118 folios (ii+118+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 183 mm.
Dimensions (written): 168 × 134 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe, starting on f. 2 (= f. א).

F. 1v is blank.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, mould.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Very tidy, uniform layout.

Justified left margin.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Diagrams on f. 23v.

Binding

Post-1600, half-bound, with marble paper covers. Boxed.

Title on spine (gold-tooled): 'עץ חיים MS. 280 (H. 429)'; added label: 'Montefiore Library MS. 280 Ha No. 429'.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Leopold Zunz (1794-1886): belonged to his library (no. 24); see catalogue entries in Hirschfeld and in Sotheby's.

Solomon Hayyim Halberstam (1832-1900): bibliophile and scholar: belong to his library (see Ha no. 429 on the spine and on the front pastedown).

Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885): belonged to his library; see red oval stamp from Ramsgate, dated 1866/7 on ff. 1r and 118v: בק"ק ראמסגט יע"א התרכז לברי"ע .

Acquired in 2004 from the Montefiore Endowment via Sotheby's.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_16082 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Hirschfeld, Hartwig, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904), p. 90.
    Sotheby's Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment: New York October 27 & 28, 2004 (New York: Sotheby's, 2004), p. 302, lot 237.

Funding of Cataloguing

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