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Harley MS 5531

Record Id:

040-003948068

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948068

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124336769.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100145087488.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5531

Title:

Ba῾al ha-lashon by Joseph Zarka.

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Grammatical writing.

Author: Zarka, Joseph (זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה)

Ba῾al ha-lashon.

בעל הלשון

Note: See Roth, ed Cecil. Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth. Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971. page 165-184, Myron M Weinstein, active 15th century Joel ben Simeon, and Library of Congress. The Washington Haggadah : A Facsimile Edition of an Illuminated Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript at the Library of Congress / Signed by Joel Ben Simeon ; Edited by Myron M. Weinstein. Washington: Library of Congress, 1990. page 22.

Decoration note: Numerous initial-word panels with pen-flourishing sometimes with masks, in violet ink. (Fols 5v-18v)

Decoration note: 2 initial-word panels formed as a castle. (Fols 8v, 17v)

Decoration note: Crown over an initial word, in violet ink. (Fol 18v)

Decoration note: Marginal drawings, in violet and light brown ink. (Fols 6v, 7r, 17v)

Colophon: נשלם ת"ל עולם יום א' ח' ניסן שנת רל"ד לפ"ק. (Fol 286v)

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Harley MS 5502 (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. 976.).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-003948068

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5531 : Ba῾al ha-lashon by Joseph Zarka.

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7877]/040-003948068

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

286 folios

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1475

End Date:

1476

Date Range:

1474

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 15th century.

286 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 190 x 130 mm. Dimensions (written): 120/115 x 75/70 mm.

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 286 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end), folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation: 30 quires: i8 (folios 2-3), ii-xxix10 (folios 4-283), xxx6 (folios 284-[289]), marked with Hebrew letters at the end.

Layout: Columns: 1. Ruled lines: 26. Written lines: 26. Uniform layout. Emblem, probably of the family Modigliani of Rome (see Roth, ed Cecil. Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth. Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971. page 178-179. 3 unfoliated blank leaves at the end folios [287]-[289]. Six unfoliated blank leaves after folio 2r. Quires are numbered with Hebrew characters starting with alef on folio 13v until folio 163v. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Horizontal ink ruling and vertical plummet ruling is visible. Traces of pricking. Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Additions: Inscription in Latin about the content of the codex: 'Dictionarium Herbaicum Joseph figlii.. .. ' (18th century) (folio 2r). Inscription in English: 'This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in the year 5208 × 1448 in Italy it is divided into 3 parts first words composed of two letters 2nd by words composed of 3 letters 3 by letters composed of four or more letters. Never printed. Same book with 5502. (BM note, folio [ii verso]). Inscription in English: 'Those two names of the authors' Benefactors, which had been erased in the manuscript, are here restored in the margin from codex 5502. pag. 2.' (BM note); the mentioned names are added in Hebrew in the outer margin: Mordekhai and Yitshak, Avraham, Shelomoh Finzi (folio 6r).

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 1.

Script: Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the latter part of the 15th century.

Binding: Post-1600. Morroco leather, gold tooled. Spine: 'Joseph Zark. Ba'al Hallashon. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley Or. 5531.'

Custodial History:

Provenance: Nathaniel Noel (bookseller) (d. 1753), bookseller employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent: purchased by Edward Harley (owner) from him, date of purchase inscribed: '18 die January A. D. 1723/24' (folio 2r).

Place of origin: Italy.

Colophon: נשלם ת"ל עולם יום א' ח' ניסן שנת רל"ד לפ"ק. (Fol 286v)

Source of Acquisition:

Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (owner) (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (owner) (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentick (owner) (b. 1715, d.1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Date of origin: 1474.

Administrative Context:

Date of origin: 1474.

Finding Aids:

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

Publications:

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. 977.

Roth, ed Cecil. 'Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth.'Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971.

Myron M Weinstein, active 15th century Joel ben Simeon, and Library of Congress. 'The Washington Haggadah : A Facsimile Edition of an Illuminated Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript at the Library of Congress / Signed by Joel Ben Simeon ; Edited by Myron M. Weinstein.'Washington: Library of Congress, 1990.

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

Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.

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