Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Philosophical writings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18831
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18831
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, S.

Summary

Philosophical writings.

Notes

• Stains and tidemarks.
   
• Leaves repaired and guarded before rebinding.
   
• Signs of worming.
   
• Paling ink.
   

Extent

101 folios; 101 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Alchazali. Liber De Opinionibus Philosophorum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 18,831.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 35; written lines: 35; Uniform layout. Titles and inital words in larger characters. Catchwords on every verso. Marginal notes and additions.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Shemu᾿el ben Matatya de-Mili Roso (?) Aviḥayal: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folios 70v & 97v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. Löwy: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 June 1852: inscribed, folio [102v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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