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Or 12261

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Or 12261
Title:
Terumat ha-kesef by Joseph Caspi (modern copy)
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
21 folios (i+21+i)
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Start Date:
1875
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1913
Date Range:
1875-1913
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CE
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Names:
Caspi, Joseph, c 1280-1340
Caspi, Joseph, c 1280-1340
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
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Or 12261

Terumat ha-kesef by Joseph Caspi (modern copy)

Contents

A compendium of Aristotle's Ethics.

Language(s): Hebrew, German

ff. 1r-20r
Author: כספי, יוסף בן אבא מארי Caspi, Joseph, approximately 1280-approximately 1340
Title: תרומת הכסף
Title: Terumat ha-kesef

A partial copy of Oxford, Bodleian MS Pococke 17 (Neubauer 1427) (https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/80032935-7b41-41ad-8d82-89f90bddb854); only ff. 121-155. Copist was Isaac Last (1847-1913).

For other extant manuscripts of Terumat ha-Kesef, see Sackson, Joseph Ibn Kaspi, p. 187 n62.

Ff. 20v and 21v: description in German in Kurrentschrift.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Pre-lined paper
Extent: 21 folios (i+21+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 182 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 12+4 leaves, and 5 smaller loose leaves (ff. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18).

Condition

Usage stains, glue stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Given dimensions are the size of the larger leaves constituting the quire. The small, loose leaves are 205 x 112mm.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script and German Kurrentschrift of the 19th-20th century.

Ashkenazi cursive script.

Ff. 20v and 21v: German Kurrentschrift.

Binding

Post-1600 cloth binding. In flap case.

History

Origin: 1875-1913 Late 19th century - early 20th century England (Oxford)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 994; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 April 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12261 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sackson, Adrian, Joseph Ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Hebrew Philosopher in Medieval Provence (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 187 n62.

Funding of Cataloguing

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