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

Title

Yosipon (יוסיפון)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27136
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27136
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Jewish historiographical work.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• Damp entry at lower corner.
   
• Wormed at ends, with infilled damage.
   

Extent

311 folios; 311 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Josippon ben Gorion. History of the Jews. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,136.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 23; written lines: 23; Uniform layout. Visible vertical ruling by folding. Catchwords on every page. Larger titles and initial words. Original foliation on every verso. Folio 1r as 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. 243: 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, folio [312v] (fse001v).
   

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 — יוסיפון
• fol. 1r — Yosipon