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Or 832

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032-003430942
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Or 832
Title:
Miscellany
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
98 folios (i+98+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1384
End Date:
1385
Date Range:
1384-1385
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, c 1065-1136
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl 13th century
Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl 13th century
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 832

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of various works in Hebrew.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-29r
Author: Aristotle אריסטו
Title: אותות השמים
Title: ʾOtot ha-Shamayim
Incipit: ספר אותות השמים שחיבר הרב ר' שמואל בן תבון ז"ל

Aristotle's Meterologica translated by Shmuel ibn Tibbon.

Scribal note on f. 16r: אני הסופר מצאת ... בהעתק ש... שהעתקתי ספר.

Colophon: נשלם ספר אותות השמים סולם ... ראשון עדי שמים רב שמואל ילדהו ... אני נחמן בכ"ר שבתי הצורף כתבתי לעצמי ... והשלמתיהו וסימתיהו במדינת אוולונא בשנת קמ"ה לפרט ונשלם באחד ועשרים יום לחודש מרחשון f. 29r .
ff. 29v-62v
Author: Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, approximately 1065-approximately 1136 אברהם בן חייא
Title: הגיון הנפש העצובה
Title: Hegyon ha-nefesh ha-ʾatsuvah

A moral treatise.

Colophon: אני נחמן י"ל בר’ שבתי הצורף ... השלמתי ההגיון ביום חמישי בתשעה עש[ר] יום לירח כסליו בשנת חמשת אלפים וקמ"ה לבריאת עולם וסימניך הק"ם סוכת הנופלת וכתבתיהו אני נחמן י"ל לעצמי f. 62v
ff. 63r-69v
Author: תבריזי, אבו בכר מחמד אבן Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 13th century
Title: פרוש עשרים וחמש הקדמות שבמורה נבוכים
Title: Perush ʾEśrim ṿe-Ḥamesh haḳdamot sheba-Moreh nevukhim
Incipit: מספרי התבון אשר איגר בחכמה האלהית

A commentary on the 25 propositions of the Guide for the Perplexed, translated from the Arabic by one of the Ibn Tibbon family.

Colophon: נשלם פי' החמש ועשרים הקדמות הפילוסופ ... וסימתיהו אני נחמן י"ל בר’ שבתי הצורף לי לעצמי בליל שלישי בליל חמש ועשרים לירח כסליו וסימניך הק"ם סוכת הנופלת f. 69v
ff. 70r-82v
Title: ספר הבהיר
Title: Sefer ha-Bahir

A kabbalistic treatise ascribed to Rabbi Neḥunya ben ha-Ḳanah.

Colophon: ברוך שעזרני השלמתי הבהיר בשנת קמ"ה לפרט וסימניך הק"ם סוכת הנופלת f. 82v
ff. 83r-83v
Title: דברי אגדה
Title: Divre agadah

An aggadic passage on Song of Songs 3:6.

Colophon:
ff. 84r-93v
Author: קמחי, דוד בן יוסף Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235
Title: פרוש מעשה מרכבה לרד"ק
Title: Perush Maʾaśeh merkhavah le-RaDaḲ

A commentary on the vision of Ezekiel.

Colophon: נשלם פי' המרכבה שחיבר רבי דוד ב"ר יוסף בן קמחי ונשלם על ידי נחמן בכ"ר שבתי הצורף ... וכתבתיהו לעצמי f. 93v
ff. 94r-96v
Title: חבור בפילוסופיה (קטע)
Title: Ḥibur ba-filosofyah (ḳeṭaʾ)
Incipit: ומיתתה היא בהקל בכבוד בוראה ורוע המעשים ונקרא רשע וזדון אמ' מעתה

Fragment of a philosophical treatise.

Colophon:
ff. 97r-98v
Title: מעשה זרובבל בן שאלתאל
Title: Maʿaśeh Zerubavel ben Sheʾaltiel

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 24, 89, 92, 97)
Extent: 98 folios (i+98+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 156 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Earlier foliation in ink.

Ff. 16v, 17r, 87v are blank.

Collation

11 quires: i-ii10 (ff. 2-11, 12-21), iii4 (ff. 22-25), ivsix (ff. 26-31), v-vi10 (ff. 32-41, 42-51), vii12 (ff. 52-63), viii-ix8 (ff. 64-71, 72-79), x4 (ff. 80-83), xi16-1 (ff. 84-98).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, margins of some leaves have been restored.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Maniculae (e.g. ff. 18v, 23v, 24r, 26v, 42v).

Pen trial on f. 59v: אנסה הקולמו' אם ילך בנימוס

Hand(s)

Byzantine Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 14th century. Scribe: The word נחמה is marked for instance on ff.45r, 60r, 61v; and the name of the author is given as acrostic for instance on ff. 32v, 33r, 34v, 37v, 44r, 95r.

Decoration

Most catchwords are decorated or illustrated, in ink.

Additions:

F. 1 was originally a flyleaf, on its recto side, there is a list of contents by a modern hand.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Othoth Hash-Shamayim, etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 832.'

History

Origin: 1384-1385 Albania (Vlorë)

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased ownership inscription(?) on f. 2r:

Acquistion note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bt of Sam. Schönblum 29 Jan. 1869'; date of accession March 1870.

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_832 (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. 153.
    Sandman, Israel M. 'The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy', in:Texts in Transit in the medieval Mediterranean/ eds. Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 198-221, esp. pp. 218 n8.

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