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Harley MS 5717

Record Id:

040-003948134

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948134

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124337742.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100145090267.0x000001

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Harley MS 5717

Title:

Collection of halakhic writings.

Arba'ah Ṭurim by Jacob ben Asher

ארבעה טורים

and 1 other text

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Even ha-῾ezer and Hoshen mishpaṭ of Arba῾ah Turim of Jacob ben Asher; Hilkhot de῾ot of the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

Fols 2r-261v

Author: Jacob ben Asher (יעקב בן אשר)

Arba'ah Ṭurim.

ארבעה טורים

Note: In two volumes: The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5716 (vol. 1) and The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5717 (vol. 2). Even ha-῾ezer begins on folio 2r, Hoshen mishpaṭ begins on folio 79r.

Decoration note: 2 decorated initial-word panels accompanied with a full floral border inhabited by birds, puttos and decorated with medallions containing figures and a coat of arms, in colours and gold. (Fols 2r, 79r)

Decoration note: Decorated initial word panel, in colours and gold. (Fol 5v)

Decoration note: Miniature, in colours and gold. (Fol 5v)

Decoration note: Numerous initial-word panels decorated with penwork and pen-flourishing, in red and blue ink. (Fols 8v-11v)

Decoration note: Vertical bands with penwork decoration. (Fols 2v-5v)

Colophon: אני חיים ברבוט צעיר הלבלרים / כתבתי אלו הארבעה טורים / בעזרת אל אדיר שבאדירים / ברוך הוא הנותן כח לעיפים. / כתבתים אל הנשא והנעלה/ ממשפחה רמה ומעולה / עושה צדקות אין קץ ותכלה / כפיו פורש להחזיק ידי רפים. / שמו הר' יואב עמנואל / לא יכבה נרו מישראל / ויזכה לבנות מקדש ההראל / כי דבריו מתקו מנופת צופים. / השם למען רחמיו וחסדיו / יזכהו להגות בו זרעו ועבדיו / ולהבין סתריו מצפוניו וסודיו / כי הם יושיעו נשמות וגופים. / סיומו בפרש' וימלאו בי ארבע' טורי אבן / אם יהיו חטאים כשנים בם לברר וללבן / ובהם תגמול ושכר כל איש וכל בן / ובזכות למודו ביאת הגואל שואפים. / ראשי תיבות מהפסוק הכתו' לעיל עם טורי כלו בו הפרט מהשנה. (Fol 265v)

Fols 261v-265v

Author: Maimonides, Moses (משה בן מימון)

Hilkhot de῾ot.

הלכות דעות

Halakhah

Colophon : folio 265v: אני חיים ברבוט צעיר הלבלרים (scribe) / כתבתי אלו הארבעה טורים / בעזרת אל אדיר שבאדירים / ברוך הוא הנותן כח לעיפים. / כתבתים אל הנשא והנעלה/ ממשפחה רמה ומעולה / עושה צדקות אין קץ ותכלה / כפיו פורש להחזיק ידי רפים. / שמו הר' יואב עמנואל (patron) / לא יכבה נרו מישראל / ויזכה לבנות מקדש ההראל / כי דבריו מתקו מנופת צופים. / השם למען רחמיו וחסדיו / יזכהו להגות בו זרעו ועבדיו / ולהבין סתריו מצפוניו וסודיו / כי הם יושיעו נשמות וגופים. / סיומו בפרש' וימלאו בי ארבע' טורי אבן / אם יהיו חטאים כשנים בם לברר וללבן / ובהם תגמול ושכר כל איש וכל בן / ובזכות למודו ביאת הגואל שואפים. / ראשי תיבות מהפסוק הכתו' לעיל עם טורי כלו בו הפרט מהשנה

In two volumes: Harley 5716 (vol. 1) and Harley 5717 (vol. 2)

Even ha-῾ezer begins on folio 2r, Hoshen mishpaṭ begins on folio 79r

On the manuscript's history see C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966, page 227 n. 6; C. E. Wright, (Cyril Ernest). Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972, page 254, 461 ; Thérèse Metzger. Jewish Life in the Middle Ages : Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Thérèse and Mendel Metzger. New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982, page 304 ; Bezalel Narkiss. Kitve-yad ʿIvriyim metsuyarim / me-et Betsalʾel Narḳis ; mavo me-et Sesil Rot ; [ʿIvrit, Daliyah Shaḥaḳ ; ʿarikhah, Daliyah Ṭesler]. Mahad. ʿIvrit ḥadashah u-metuḳenet.. Yerushalayim: Keter, 1984, page 296-307 ; Ilana Tahan. Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan. London: British Library, 2007, page 116

Decorations

Initial: folio 2r, 79r: 2 decorated initial-word panels accompanied with a full floral border inhabited by birds, puttos and decorated with medallions containing figures and a coat of arms, in colours and goldInitial: folio 5v: Decorated initial word panel, in colours and gold Miniature: folio 5v: Miniature, in colours and goldInitial: folios 8v - 11v: Numerous initial-word panels decorated with penwork and pen-flourishing, in red and blue inkBorder: Vertical bands with penwork decoration.folios 2v - 5v folios 80r - 87v

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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040-003948134

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5717 : Collection of halakhic writings.Arba'ah Ṭurim by Jacob ben Asherארבעה טוריםand 1 other text

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7887]/040-003948134

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

266 folios

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1475

End Date:

1475

Date Range:

1475

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 15th century.

266 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 368 x 260 mm. Dimensions (written): 239 x 170 mm.

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 266 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end); folio 1 is a parchment flyleaf.

Collation: 27 quires: i-vii10 (folios 2-71), viii-ix8 (folios 72-87), x12 (folios 88-99), xi8 (folios 100-107), xii12 (folios 108-119), xiii8 (folios 120-127), xiv12 (folios 128-139), xv8 (folios 140-147), xvi12 (folios 148-159), xvii8 (folios 160-167), xviii12 (folios 168-179), xix-xx8 (folios 180-195), xxi12 (folios 196-207), xxii8 (folios 208-215), xxiii12 (folios 216-227), xxiv8 (folios 228-235), xxv12 (folios 236-247), xxvi8 (folios 248-255), xxviieleven (folios 256-266).

Layout: Columns: 2. Ruled lines: 37. Written lines: 37. Uniform layout. Visible pricking and horizontal ruling in ink, page by page, and vertical ruling with plummet, also page by page. Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable. Last line written outside ruling. Initial words in larger semi-cursive script. Horizontal decorated leaf catchwords. Censors' erasures (e.g., folios 14r, 94v, 171r, 216v, 243r, 252v).

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 1.

Script: Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Hayim Barbut (scribe): inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio 265v). Decorated by Florentine artists.

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Compend. Leges et Institut Mosaic. Tom II (Hebrew). Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 5716 Plut. XXXI P.'

Dimensions [leaf]: 368x260mm

Dimensions [written]: 239x170mm

Parchment codex of the 15th century

Script (summary): Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Hayim Barbut (scribe): inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio 265v). Decorated by Florentine artists

Foliation: 266 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end); folio 1 is a parchment flyleaf

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Compend. Leges et Institut Mosaic. Tom II (Hebrew). Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 5716 Plut. XXXI P.'

Additions: [5]235, that is, 1475: date of production added by a later hand, probably by Shimshon Cohen Modon (owner) (folio 265v). Luigi da Bologna (censor), a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century): inscribed with his name as censor, 1598 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, page 104, and appendix § 112-117. Frater Giovanni Montifal. di Modena (censor): inscribed with his name, undated (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 88. Hippolite of Ferrara (censor), Franciscan censor (active at the end of the 16th century-beginning of 17th century, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1603 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 18-19, 93. Giovanni Domenico Vistorini (censor): inscribed with his name, 1610 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 85-87. Shimshon Cohen Modon (owner), the younger: inscribed with his name in an ownership's note (folio 1r)

Format: Codex

Material: Parchment

Custodial History:

Provenance: [5]235, that is, 1475: date of production added by a later hand, probably by Shimshon Cohen Modon (owner) (folio 265v). Luigi da Bologna (censor), a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century): inscribed with his name as censor, 1598 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. page 104, and appendix § 112-117. Frater Giovanni Montifal. di Modena (censor): inscribed with his name, undated (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 88. Hippolite of Ferrara (censor), Franciscan censor (active at the end of the 16th century-beginning of 17th century, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1603 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 18-19, 93. Giovanni Domenico Vistorini (censor): inscribed with his name, 1610 (folio 265r); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, appendix § 85-87. Shimshon Cohen Modon (owner), the younger: inscribed with his name in an ownership's note (folio 1r).

Place of origin: Italy, N. E. (Ferrara?).

Source of Acquisition:

Acquisition: Edward Harley (owner): bought by him through Nathaniel Noel (bookseller) (b. 1681, d. 1753), for £20 1s (price of the two volumes, see C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966; Wright, (Cyril Ernest) C. E. Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972); inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 18 January 1723/4 (folio 1r). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (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 Bentinck (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: 1475.

1753 Edward Harley (owner): bought by him through Nathaniel Noel (bookseller) (b. 1681, d. 1753), for £20 1s (price of the two volumes, see C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966; C. E. Wright, (Cyril Ernest). Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972); inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 18 January 1723/4 (folio 1r). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (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 Bentinck (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

Administrative Context:

Date of origin: 1475.

Origin: 5235 Hebrew (1475-1475)

Italy, N. E. (Ferrara?)

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. 545.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5716-17.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 227 n. 6.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani, A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 254, 461.

Thérèse and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.

Bezalel Narkiss, 'Three Jewish Art Patrons in Mediaeval Italy', in Festschrift Reuben R. Hecht (Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., 1984), pp. 296-307 (pp. 306-7).

Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 117.

William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.' New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. 'The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726.' London: Bibliographical Society, 1966.

Wright, (Cyril Ernest) C. E. 'Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright.' London: British Museum, 1972.

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.