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Royal MS 16 A IX

Record Id:
040-003314227
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002105724
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100031725371.0x000002
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 A IX
Title:
Collection of grammatical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002105724
040-003314227
Is part of:
Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

 

Royal MS 16 A IX : Collection of grammatical works
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032-002105724[1922]/040-003314227
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
75 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_A_IX (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
George II
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Royal MS 16 A IX

Collection of grammatical works

Contents

Grammatical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-71r
Title: Petaḥ devaray
Title: פתח דברי
Author: Kimhi, David יוסף קמחי, דוד בן יוסף

The Hebrew Grammar, partly incomplete. Cf. the printed edition of Constantinople, 1510.

ff. 71v-75v
Title: ῾Et sofer
Title: עט סופר
Author: Kimhi, David יוסף קמחי, דוד בן יוסף

Incomplete.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 1045.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 75 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

75 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (too tightly bound).

Condition

Heavily inked areas show beginnings of burn-through.

Usage stains, and some ink smears.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 38

Written lines: 24 38

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every verso, part decorated (e.g. folio 40v).

Marginal notes.

Partly vocalised.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 17th century and Sefardi cursive script of the 16th century.

ff. 69r-75v
in Sefardi cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooling, with initials M.B. on the upper cover. Boxed.

Spine: 'Pethah Debharai. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Reg. 16 A. IX.'

History

Origin: 16th-17th century

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_IX (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. 965.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL