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

Title

Ḳovets mi-kitve Natan Shapira (קבץ מכתבי נתן שפירא)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27020
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27020
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Kabbalistic writings of Natan ben Reuven Shapira.

Notes

• Much stained and slightly water-damaged (lower edges).
   
• Yehoshu῾a Ḳolonyah: inscribed, folio 6r.
   
• Folios 1r-8v and 117v served as flyleaves and contain scribblings, doodles and various calculations.
   

Extent

117 folios; 117 folios

Foliation

Original Hebrew foliation from folio 9 onwards, the preceding folios being flyleaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Nathan Spira. Chiddushin 'al 'En Ya'akob. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,020.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 27 ; written lines: 27 ; Uniform layout. Titles and initial words in larger characters. Catchwords on every verso, and under every column if the page is divided. Visible vertical hard-point ruling. Red edges. Maniculae with additional marginal notes, e.g., folio 10r, 11v.

Script

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 126: 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 [118v] (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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — קבץ מכתבי נתן שפירא
• fol. 1r — Ḳovets mi-kitve Natan Shapira