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Title:
Miscellany
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
200 folios
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Languages:
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Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1400-1699
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CE
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Names:
Alshekh, Moses ben Ḥayim, fl 16th century
Alshekh, Moses ben Ḥayim, fl 16th century
Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
E. Daniell
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Ibn Tibon, Moses ben Samuel, 1200-1299
Ibn Tibon, Moses ben Samuel, 1200-1299
Ibn al-Jazzār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 0878-0980
Ibn al-Jazzār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 0878-0980
Moses ben Joseph ha-Levi
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Neḥemiah Lari
לארי, נחמיה
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27542

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous texts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 15th and 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 200 folios

Binding

BM in-house binding, black leather.

Title on spine: 'Ibn Al-Jazzar. Tsedath had-Derachim, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,542.'.

History

Origin: 1400-1699 15th and 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bt. of Mr. E. Daniell 14 Nov. 1866'.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-94v
Author: ג’זאר, אחמד בן אברהם אבן Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Jazzār
Title: צדת הדרכים
Title: Tsedat ha-derakhim
Incipit: מעתיק הספר הזה מלשון ... ללשון ...לפני כל חכם לבי לא מפני היותי חכם בעיני ובקי ומדע בשני הלשונות ויודע בחכמה הזאת ראוי

A medical treatise.

In the Moses ibn Tibbon's translation.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: hand with a star on top (e.g. ff. 91, 93).
Extent: 94 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 143 × 97 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink on the verso sides.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Section heading are in larger characters.

Marginal notes by a later hand (e.g. ff. 2r-3r).

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance

Ownership inscriptions on f. 1r: זה ספר צדת הדרכים זה הספר ... סעיד ... יצ"ו

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 95r-95v
Author: משה בן חיים אלשיך Alshekh, Moses, active 16th century
Title: ספר משאת משה
Title: Sefer maśʾat Mosheh

Commentary on the Book of Esther.

F. 80 of the printed edition: Venice, 1601.

Ff. 93r-96v: index.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio (f. 95)
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 128 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Usage stains, tears, leaf on guard.

Hand(s)

Printed; Rashi script and square script.

History

Origin: 1601 1601 Italy (Venice)

Provenance

III

Contents

ff. 96r-101r
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
Title: פיוטים
Title: Piyuṭim
Incipit: ואותם אמלט מחרץ וצדקם אצפון לבניהם

Liturgical poems on circumcision and other subjects.

Incomplete.

ff. 101v-125v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: רסאלה אלימנייה
Title: Risalah al-Yamaniyyah
Incipit: בשם יוי' נעשה ונצליח... כתאב רבינו משה ביר' מימון זצ"ל אלי... f. 101v

The epistle of Maimonides to Jacob ben Nathanel Ibn al-Fayyūmi, the rosh yeshiva of the Yemenite Jews ("Igeret Teman").

In Judeo-Arabic with Hebrew introduction.

ff. 126r-141v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: רסאלה תחית המתים
Title: Risalah teḥiyat ha-metim
Incipit: בשם רחמן ... בצדק כל אמרי פי f. 126r

The epistle of Maimonides on the resurrection.

Ff. 141v-142v: added by a different hand.

Incomplete at the end.

In Judeo-Arabic.

References

Loewe, R. 'Salvation' is not of the Jews,' The Journal of Theological Studies 32, no. 2 (1981), p. 349, n. 3.
Finkel, Joshua, Maʾamar teḥiyat ha-metim - Maimonides' Treatise on Resurrection (New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1939), esp. p. 87.
ff. 143r-154v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה
Title: כתאב אלחדוד
Title: Kitab al-Hudud

The Book of Definitions, a philosophical work.

In Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 154v-162v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: פי אלבואסיר
Title: Fi al-Bawasir

A medical treatise on haemorrhoids.

In Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 163r-170v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Title: רסאלה אלגוהרין
Title: Risalah al-Jawharayn

A treatise on the two principles (kathīf and laṭif) and their accidents, in two parts.

Diagrams on f. 164r.

In Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 170v-178r
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Title: רסאלה אלאסטרנומיא
Title: Risalah al-asṭronomiyaʾ

Diagrams on ff. 173v, 175v.

In Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 178v-189v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author: Neḥemiah Lari לארי, נחמיה
Title: נוסח כתב
Title: Nusaḥ katav

The epistle of Neḥemiah Lari to Moses ben Joseph ha-Levi on the writing of the Law, with part of the reply (f. 178v).

In Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 190r-194v
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: סדר באור האותיות וצורתן
Title: Seder beʾur ha-ʾotiyot ṿe-tsuratan

ff. 194v-197r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author: ג’יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248-
Title: סוד תפלין
Title: Sod tefilin

Kabbalistic tract.

f. 197v
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: באור ספר ספר וספור
Title: Beʾur sofer sefer ṿe-sipur

ff. 198r-198v
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: חשבון של אלף ורס"ט ושליש
Title: Ḥeshbon shel elef ṿe-269 u-shelish

A fragment of an account of the tombs of the saints in Palestine and Syria.

ff. 198v-200r
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: יחוסי הצדיקים ז"ל וציונם
Title: Yiḥuse ha-tsadiḳim ṿe-tsiyunam

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish oriental paper.
Extent: 105 folios (ff. 96-200)
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Iron gall ink corrosion, f. 43r is faded.

Upper outer corner part of . 199 is missing.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Ff. 96r-101r: written in verse format, the rest is in paragraphs with justified left margins.

Ruling is visible.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 141v-142v: a fragment of a midrash about Bar Kozba, copied by a later hand.

F. 200 is a mounted fragment of another manuscript.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Yemen

Provenance

Ownership inscription on f. 96r: שלמה [...] שבתאי ישראל.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27542 (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), IV, p. 152.

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