Description of British Library, Add MS 26949: Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah (ספר הפליאה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-10-12 2020-10-12 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26949: Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah (ספר הפליאה) 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 26949: Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah (ספר הפליאה). 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. Stained. Slightly water-damaged. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 310v. Censored by Boniforte del Asinary: Italian censor (active 1575-1599 in Asti): inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per me Boniforte del Asinari: inscribed (folio 310v). Censored by Hieronimus Carolus: inscribed with his name: 'Fr. Hier. Carolus Asti Die 19 Febr. 1582': inscribed (folio 310v). 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 26949 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26949 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah. Hebrew Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah (ספר הפליאה) 1r ספר הפליאה 1r Sefer ha-Peli᾿ah

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 310 folios; 310 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 33; written lines: 33; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Initial words and divine names given in larger square characters. Additions and corrections given in the margin. Lacunae in the text indicated by blank spaces. Italian cursive of the 16th century. Shelomoh ben Shemu῾el of Rossina: inscribed in the colophon, folio 310v.

Pre-1600. Dark brown leather, blind-tooled, with remains of clasps. Boxed. Spine: 'Sefer Hap-Peliah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,949.'

1581

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 58: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, folio [311v] (fse001v).