Description of British Library, Add MS 26975: Responses (שאלות ותשובות) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-16 2022-11-16 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26975: Responses (שאלות ותשובות) 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 26975: Responses (שאלות ותשובות). 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. Slightly stained. Folio 1r: a date of 5548 (1788) written in a large semi-cursive script, on the top of the page. 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 26975 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26975 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Responses of David ibn Abi Zimra. Hebrew Responses (שאלות ותשובות) 1r שאלות ותשובות 1r Responses

Paper

 157 folios; 157 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28 ; written lines: 28 ; Uniform layout. Hard-point vertical ruling visible. Catchwords on every page. Has original (but incorrect) Hebrew foliation. Some marginal notes and additions are present. Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

BM in-house. Spine title: 'David ben Abi Zimra. Teshuboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,975.'

Between 1700 and 1799

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 86: 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 [159v].