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Or 9778

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Or 9778
Title:
Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimḥi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
75 folios (i+75+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9778

Sefer ha-shorashim by David Kimḥi

Contents

Grammatical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-75v
Author: Kimhi, David, 1160-1235 קמחי, דוד בן יוסף
Title: ספר השרשים
Title: Sefer ha-shorashim

F. 67 is inverted: recto should be the verso and vice versa.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 75 folios (i+75+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 252 × 20 mm.
Dimensions (written): 193 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

9 quire: i-ii8 (ff. 1-8, 9-16), iii-iv6 (ff. 17-22, 23-28), v8 (ff. 29-36), vi6 (ff. 36-42), vii-viii8 (ff. 43-50, 51-58, 59-66), ix9 (ff. 67-75).

No catchwords.

Condition

Worn leaves, mould damage, faded script (some loss of text).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 25 27

Uniform layout.

Ruling in hard point and pricking are visible.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

The roots are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 14th-15th century.

Binding

Post-1600, parchment binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'Kimḥi. Sepher Hash-Shārāshīm. Hebrew.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Luzac & Co. 9 April 1927.'; date of accession 27 April 1927.

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=Or_9778 (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), vol. IV. p. 159.

Funding of Cataloguing

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