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Title

Part 1 of Natan ben Reuven Shapira's Me᾿orot Natan.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26958
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26958
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Part 1 of Natan ben Reuven Shapira's Me᾿orot Natan.

Notes

• Small marks of book-worming.
   

Extent

346 folios; 346 folios

Foliation

Original Hebrew foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Meoroth Nathan. Part I. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,958.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 24 26; written lines: 24 26; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every page. Headings and initial words in larger characters. Additions and comments in the margin. Folio 1 is an ornamented title-page. Coloured edges.

Script

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 68: 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 [348v] (fse002v).
   

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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