Description of British Library, Add MS 26962: Masekhet Purim (מסכת פורים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-10-09 2020-10-09 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26962: Masekhet Purim (מסכת פורים) 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 26962: Masekhet Purim (מסכת פורים). 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. Usage stains. 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 26962 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26962 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Religious satirical writing. Hebrew Masekhet Purim (מסכת פורים) 1r מסכת פורים 1r Masekhet Purim

Paper

 9 folios; 9 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Square initial words and running titles. Catchwords on every page. Folio 1 is a title-page. Italian cursive script of the 19th century. Joseph Almanzi: inscribed, folio 1r.

BM in-house. Spine: 'Purim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,962.'

1813

 Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi(b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 8; 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, folio [10v] (fse001v).