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Or 10744

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Or 10744
Title:
Maṭeh Dan by David Nieto
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
54 folios (i+54+v)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10744 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Nieto, David ben Pinhas, 1654-1728
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Or 10744

Maṭeh Dan by David Nieto

Contents

Apologia of the oral law directed more particularly against the Karaites.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-54v
Author: ניטו, דוד בן פינחס Nieto, David ben Pinhas, 1654-1728
Title: מטה דן: נקרא גם "כוזרי חלק ב’"
Title: Maṭeh Dan: niḳra gam "Kuzari ḥeleḳ 2"
Incipit: הקדמה - לפנים בישראל כי מלך ה' צבאות בהר ציון וירושלים היתה תהלה בארץ

Divided into five disputations (ṿikuḥim).

Ff. 52r-54v: the content of the disputations.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-2r
Title: הקדמה

F. 1v (second line from below): וקראתי שם הספר הזה בישראל מטה דן וכוזריחלק שני מטה דן...עוד קראתי מטה דן לפי שתיבת דן כוללת שמי וכינויי דוד ניטו. כוזרי חלק ב’ לפי שהרב ר’ יאודה הלוי זצוק"ל כל מגמתו בספר הכוזרי שלו היא להוכיח אמיתת תורה שבכתב בפרט ועל תורה שבע"פ לא דיבר אלא דרך כלל, ובכן מיניה ומיני תתברר אמתת שתיהן ויסתתמו טענות מכחישיהן ("I named it Mateh Dan because the word Dan Includes my name David Nieto, and Kuzari part ii because the aim of Rabbi Yehudah ha-Levi’s book Kuzari was mainly to assert the truth of the Written Torah in particular, and of the Oral Torah he spoke of in general only. And so, the truth of both shall be clarified, and the claims of those who deny them shall be silenced.)

ff. 2v-5r
Title: ויכוח ראשון
ff. 5r-10v
Title: ויכוח שני
ff. 11r-19v
Title: ויכוח שלשי
ff. 20r-36r
Title: ויכוח רביעי
ff. 37r-52r
Title: ויכוח חמשי

With tables.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: anchor with a star on top (e.g. ff. 2, 9).
Extent: 54 folios (i+54+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 288 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 280 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 36v is blank.

Collation

2 quires: i36, ii22.

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains

Layout

Columns:1

Number of written lines per page varies.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Marginal notes by the same hand.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Diagrams on ff. 23v-24r, 29v.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, decorated paper covers. In flap case.

Label on spine: '269 מטה דן קכא'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 269; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 18 February 1928.

Record Sources

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

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10744 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Ruderman, David B. 'Jewish Thought in Newtonian England = The Career and Writings of David Nieto', PAAJR, 58 (1992), pp. 193-219.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL