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Detailed record for Additional 19064
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| Author |
Solomon ibn Gabirol |
| Title |
Keter Malkhut (The Crown of Kingship) by Solomon ibn Gabirol (ff. 1-8r); festival prayer book (mahzor), Italian rite (ff. 8v-231v) |
| Origin |
Italy |
| Date |
15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Italian square script, punctuated |
| Scribe |
Michael (?) |
| Decoration |
3 decorated initial-word panels with partial border, in colours and gold or silver (ff. 6, 37v, 72v). 1 initial word in gold (f. 17v). Micrography (f. 7v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 210 (180 x 130) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 231 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
24 quires: ithree (ff. 1-3), ii-xi10 (ff. 4-103), xii10 (ff. 104-105, 105a-112), xiii-xxi10 (ff. 113-202), xxii10 (ff. 203-208, 208a-211), xxiii-xxiv10 (ff. 212-231). Catchwords sometimes decorated. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled, with remains of clasps. |
| Provenance |
Michael, the scribe (?): the name Michael is decorated (f. 168).
Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 231v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.
Owner's inscription in Italian, partially illegible: 'Questo lib[ro] .. David a Samuel .. Moise Borghi (?) (f. 1).
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): purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 November, 1852 (f. [232v]). |
| Notes |
Erasures presumably by the censor (e. g., ff. 15, 116v, 224v, 227).
Unfoliated blank leaf after ff. 105, 208.
Imperfect at the end. |
| Select 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), II, no. 633.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 79. |
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f. 6
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 7v
Menorah |
f. 37v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
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f. 37v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 72v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 72v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
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