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Detailed record for Additional 19943
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| Author |
Nathan ben Joel Palquera |
| Title |
Tzorei ha-guf (The balms of the body) |
| Origin |
Italy |
| Date |
1447 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated |
| Scribe |
Solomon ben Judah Geroni |
| Decoration |
Decorated bands around the texts, in ink (ff. 210, 278v). Maniculae (e.g., ff. 137, 157, 160, 164, 169, 173v, 178, 180, 195, 226, 228).
Decorated catchwords (e.g., ff. 125v, 232v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
380 x 275 (240/235 x 155) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 278 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the end) |
| Collation |
29 quires: i2 (ff. 1-2), ii-xxviii10 (ff. 3-272), xxix10-4 (ff. 273-278). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. White leather, tooled. |
| Provenance |
Solomon ben Judah Geroni, the scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 12 Adar 5207 [1447] (f. 278v).
Eliyah ben Shabbetai the physician, the patron: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 12 Adar 5207 [1447] (f. 278v).
Collegii Parisiensis Societatis Jesu: inscribed (ff. 3, 278v).
Gerald Meerman (b. 1722, d. 1771): his manuscript cod. orient. no. 5: inscribed (f. [279v]).
L. Herrman: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 August 1854: inscribed (f. [279v]). |
| Notes |
Incomplete at the beginning. |
| 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), III, no. 1035.
Jan, Heer van Dalem en Vuren Meerman, Bibliotheca Meermanniana; sive catalogus librorum impressorum et codicum manuscriptorum (The Hague, 1824), vol. IV, p. 1. |
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f. 278v
Decorated colophon |
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