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

Title

A commentary on the part of the Zohar (Sifra de-tseniʿuta).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26944
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26944
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A commentary on the part of the Zohar (Sifra de-tseniʿuta).

Notes

• Stained.
   

Extent

22 folios; 22 folios

Foliation

Original foliation in the left-hand upper corner of each recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Isaac Luria. Perush Siphra Di-Tseni'utha. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,944.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 23; written lines: 21 23; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Additions and comments in the margin. Folio 1 is a title page.

Script

Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 53: 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 [24v] (fse002v).
   

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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