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Royal MS 16 A III

Record Id:
040-003314226
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002105724
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100031725371.0x000001
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 A III
Title:
Collection of liturgical, philosophical, and halakhical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002105724
040-003314226
Is part of:
Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

 

Royal MS 16 A III : Collection of liturgical, philosophical, and halakhical works
Hierarchy:
032-002105724[1921]/040-003314226
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
64 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_A_III (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Zarka, Joseph ben Jehudah
Zarḳa, Yosef ben Yehudah,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/308277947
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Royal MS 16 A III

Collection of liturgical, philosophical, and halakhical works

Contents

A collection of liturgical, philosophical, and halakhical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-9v
Title: Milḥamot ha-Shem
Title: מלחמות השם
Author: Zarka, Joseph ben Jehudah זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה

A poem on the contest between Bible and Talmud.

ff. 10r-50v
Title: Hilkhot ha-sheḥitah
Title: הלכות שחיטה

The rules are accompanied by a commentary.

ff. 51r-58r
Title: Hilkhot bediḳah
Title: הלכות בדיקה
ff. 58v-60r
Title: Perushim ha-tefilot
Title: פרושים על התפלות

Short disqusitions on the liturgical pieces.

ff. 60v-64v
Title: Musare ha-pilosofim
Title: מוסרי הפילוסופים
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq al-ʻIbadi, 809-873 חנין בן אסחאק

In the Hebrew translation of Judah ben Solomon Harizi. The work begins with the translatior's introduction, folio 60v. The leaves at the end have been left blank, with the exception of part of folio 63r, which contains the opening of Maimonides' Sheloshah ʻasar ʻiḳarim.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 64 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 120/130 × 95/100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 95/85 × 75/60 mm.
Foliation:

64 folios (+ 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked by pen and ink decorated catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 18

Written lines: 17 18

Uniform layout.

First 9 leaves are of different size than the rest of the manuscript.

Pricking and hard-point ruling is visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gilt-tooled, with initials M.B. on the front upper cover. Boxed.

Spine: 'Hilkhot Shehitah. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Reg. 16 A III.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1757

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_A_III (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), no. 1042.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL