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

Title

Philosophical writings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 21140
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21140
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Philosophical writings.

Notes

• Tidemark at top corner.
   
• Paper foxing, especially at corners and edges.
   
• A few usage stains.
   

Extent

35 folios; 35 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Marbled paper cover with brown leather edges and spine. Spine: 'Tractat. Moral Et Philosoph. Hebr. Mus Brit. Jure Emptionis. 21,140.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Hard-point ruling. Titles and inital words in larger characters. Catchwords on every verso. Marginal notes throughout. A diagram, folio 26r. Folio 1 is a title page.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Ḥananiyah ben Menaḥem Ḳazes: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 35v.

Provenance

• Giovanni Domenico Carretto
   
• Acquisition: Hirsch Edelman : purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 August 1855; inscribed, folio [38v] (fse003v).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — מאזני העיונים
• fol. 1r — Ma᾿azene ha-῾iyunim
• fol. 21r — ספר העגולות הרעיונות
• fol. 21r — Sefer ha-῾agulot ha-ra῾eyonot