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Detailed record for Additional 26933
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| Author |
Nahmanides |
| Title |
Commentary on the Pentateuch in an abridged form |
| Origin |
Spain or Italy |
| Date |
15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated |
| Decoration |
Numerous initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, sometimes inhabited or accompanied with animals and hybrids in the margins, in red and mauve ink. |
| Dimensions in mm |
145 x 100 (90 x 65) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 181 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
Quires: i-xviii10 (ff. 1-180), xix2 (ff. 181-[182]). Catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house |
| Provenance |
Alessandro de Caii (?), censor: inscribed with his name, 1589 (?) (f. 181v).
Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 181v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.
Illegible inscription, probably censor's signature (f. 181v).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 41: inscribed (ff. [182v], [183v]); 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 [1997], 131-53). |
| Notes |
Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. |
| Select bibliography |
Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 13 (in the Hebrew part).
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), I, no. 213. |
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f. 1v
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f. 6v
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f. 6v
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f. 45v
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f. 45v
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f. 46v
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f. 46v
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f. 51v
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f. 51v
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f. 54
Initial-word panel |
f. 54
Dog |
f. 139
Initial-word panel |
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f. 139
Initial-word panel |
f. 175v
Initial-word panel |
f. 175v
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