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

Title

Kabbalistic writings from the school of Nathan of Gaza.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27098
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27098
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Kabbalistic writings from the school of Nathan of Gaza.

Notes

• Dark stain in gutter throughout.
   
• Losses at corners, infilled.
   

Extent

22 folios; 22 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Seder Ta'anith. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,098.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Initial words and divine names in larger square characters. Visible pricking and vertical ruling. Catchwords on every page.

Script

Italian cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 204: 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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