Description of British Library, Add MS 11639: Miscellany קובץ

Description of British Library, Add MS 11639: Miscellany קובץ contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-05-07 2020-05-07 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 11639: Miscellany קובץ are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 11639: Miscellany קובץ. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Illegible Hebrew inscription, undated (on the upper part of folio 1r). Includes a table of moladot (lunation-commencements) for the period 1279/80 - 1295/95 (folio 444r). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 11639 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11639 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, Hafṭarot, Tiḳun Soferim, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Hagadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, the book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

Hebrew Miscellany קובץ 1r Genesis 28v Exodus 51v Leviticus 68v Numbers 92r Deuteronomy 123v Hafṭarot 138r Targum of the Hafṭarot 143r Tiḳun soferim 145v Song of Songs 149r Ruth 152r Ecclesiastes 161r Sefer maʿarakhah 169v Sidur 194v Special portions 196r Pirḳe avot 203v Prayers 205r Hagadah 209v Targum Be-shalakh 212v Targum of Exodus 19 221r Prayers 226v Hosh῾anot 232r Pieces for Simḥat Torah 234r Ma῾arivim 241r Seder parashiyot 243r On marriage and birth 246r Rules for Seder Pesaḥ 248r Birkat lulav 249r Hilkhot ha-sheḥitah 250r Tsiduḳ ha-din 251r Formulae for legal documents 256v Taḳanot against informers 258r Taḳanot Rabenu Gershom 259r Seder ḥalitsah 261v Yotsrot 285v Yotsrot 351v Ofanim 359v Yotsrot le-Rosh ha-shanah 390v Service for Yom Kipur 423v Lel Yom Kipur 433v Lamentations 437v Esther 444r Moladot 445r Penitentary prayers 461r Seliḥot u-petiḥot 486r Pizmonim 506r Tokhaḥot 510r ῾Aḳedot 514v An index of poetical pieces 515v Mezuzah 528v Pesuḳim 533r Metrical pieces 536v Calendar tables 546v Sefer mitsṿot ḳatan 647v Perush azharot 656r Commentary on poetical pieces 683v An addition to Megilat Ta῾anit 684r Sedarim aḥerim 686v Sefer tarshish 708r A commentary on piyuṭim 717v A commentary on piyuṭim 733r Gimaṭriyot aḥerim 734r Dinim le-yamim ṭovim

Parchment

746 folios; 746 folios Hebrew foliation begins on folio 6. Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 36 40; written lines: 35 39; Ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are not distinguishable. Many marginal illuminations and illustrations, which consist mainly of letters and designs, in colors or in colors and gold. Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Written by Binyamin: inscribed with his name (folios 142v, 306v, 514r, 535r), the name Binyamin is marked in the text (folios 24v, 26r). 114rFull-page miniature. 115rFull-page miniature. 116rFull-page miniature. 117vFull-page miniature. 118rFull-page miniature. 118vFull-page miniature. 119rFull-page miniature. 119vFull-page miniature. 120rFull-page miniature. 121rFull-page miniature. 121vFull-page miniature. 122rFull-page miniature. 124rMicrography (in geometric form). 124vMicrography (in geometric form). 125rMicrography (in geometric form). 125vMicrography (in geometric form). 126rMicrography (in geometric form). 126vMicrography (in geometric form). 127rMicrography (in geometric form). 127vMicrography (in geometric form). 128rMicrography (in geometric form). 128vMicrography (in geometric form). 129rMicrography (in geometric form). 129vMicrography (in geometric form). 130rMicrography (in geometric form). 130vMicrography (in geometric form). 131rMicrography (in geometric form). 131vMicrography (in geometric form). 132rMicrography (in geometric form). 132vMicrography (in geometric form). 133rMicrography (in geometric form). 133vMicrography (in geometric form). 134rMicrography (in geometric form). 134vMicrography (in geometric form). 135rMicrography (in geometric form). 135vMicrography (in geometric form). 136rMicrography (in geometric form). 136vMicrography (in geometric form). 137rMicrography (in geometric form). 137vMicrography (in geometric form). 138rMicrography (in geometric form). 138vMicrography (in geometric form). 139rMicrography (in geometric form). 139vMicrography (in geometric form). 140rMicrography (in geometric form). 140vMicrography (in geometric form). 141rMicrography (in geometric form). 141vMicrography (in geometric form). 142rMicrography (in geometric form). 142vMicrography (in geometric form). 142vColophon in decorated panel with gold letters. 143rMicrography (in geometric form). 143vMicrography (in geometric form). 144rMicrography (in geometric form). 144vMicrography (in geometric form). 145rMicrography (in geometric form). 145vMicrography (in geometric form). 146rMicrography (in geometric form). 146vMicrography (in geometric form). 147rMicrography (in geometric form). 147vMicrography (in geometric form). 148rMicrography (in geometric form). 148vMicrography (in geometric form). 149rMicrography (in geometric form). 149vMicrography (in geometric form). 150rMicrography (in geometric form). 150vMicrography (in geometric form). 151rMicrography (in geometric form). 151vMicrography (in geometric form). 152rMicrography (in geometric form). 152vMicrography (in geometric form). 153rMicrography (in geometric form). 153vMicrography (in geometric form). 154rMicrography (in geometric form). 154vMicrography (in geometric form). 155rMicrography (in geometric form). 155vMicrography (in geometric form). 156rMicrography (in geometric form). 156vMicrography (in geometric form). 157rMicrography (in geometric form). 157vMicrography (in geometric form). 158rMicrography (in geometric form). 158vMicrography (in geometric form). 159rMicrography (in geometric form). 159vMicrography (in geometric form). 160rMicrography (in geometric form). 160vMicrography (in geometric form). 161rMicrography (in geometric form). 161vMicrography (in geometric form). 162rMicrography (in geometric form). 162vMicrography (in geometric form). 163rMicrography (in geometric form). 163vMicrography (in geometric form). 164rMicrography (in geometric form). 164vMicrography (in geometric form). 165rMicrography (in geometric form). 165vMicrography (in geometric form). 166rMicrography (in geometric form). 166vMicrography (in geometric form). 167rMicrography (in geometric form). 167vMicrography (in geometric form). 168rMicrography (in geometric form). 205rTextual illustration in colour. 205vTextual illustration in colour. 206vTextual illustration in colour. 207vTextual illustration in colour. 208rTextual illustration in colour. 259vFull-page miniature. 260vFull-page miniature. 292rTextual illustration in colour. 309vTextual illustration in colour. 516vFull-page miniature. 517rFull-page miniature. 517vFull-page miniature. 518rFull-page miniature. 518vFull-page miniature. 519rFull-page miniature. 519vFull-page miniature. 520rFull-page miniature. 520vFull-page miniature. 521rFull-page miniature. 521vFull-page miniature. 522rFull-page miniature. 522vFull-page miniature. 523rFull-page miniature. 523vFull-page miniature. 524rFull-page miniature. 525vFull-page miniature. 526rFull-page miniature. 527vFull-page miniature. 542rFull-page diagram of the celestial bodies and the zodiac signs. 542vFull-page diagram of the celestial bodies and the zodiac signs. 740vFull-page miniature in colours and gold. 741rFull-page miniature in colours and gold. 741vFull-page miniature in colours and gold. 742rFull-page miniature in colours and gold. 742vFull-page miniature in colours and gold. 743rFull-page miniature in colours and gold.

Pre-1600. Dark brown leather over wooden boards, gold tooled.

Between 1277 and 1324

Unknown Shemu᾿el ben Ḥayim Avraham ben Mosheh of Coburg Acquisition: M. Reina of Milan: sold to the booksellers Payne & Foss in Paris in 1838 or 1839 for the British Museum: note by Frederic Madden that it was 'Purchased of MM. Payne & Foss 13th July, 1839. It came from the collection of M. Reina of Milan, sold at Paris in 1839' (folio 746v).