Description of British Library, Add MS 26943: Pesaḳ contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-10-13 2020-10-13 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26943: Pesaḳ 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 26943: Pesaḳ. 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. Folios 45r-49r contain additional remarks on ῾eruv. 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 26943 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26943 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A pesaḳ on the question of ῾eruv. Hebrew Pesaḳ 1r Pesaḳ

Paper

 49 folios; 49 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 23 24; written lines: 23 24; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Horizontal catchwords on every verso. Initial words given in larger characters. Original foliation in the upper left-hand margin of each recto. Pen-decorated signature of the copyist, folio 49r. Italian cursive script of the 18th century. Autograph.

BM in-house. Spine title: 'Tract. on the 'Erub. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,943.'

Between 1700 and 1799

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 52: 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, [51v].