Metadata: Jewish law
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- British Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- British Library
- Postal address:
- 96 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2DB
- Web address:
- http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/index.html
- Email:
- Email: mss@bl.uk
- Reference number:
- Add MS 27213
- Title:
- Jewish law
- Title (official language):
- Jewish law
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai
- Date(s):
- 1400/1799
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 42 folios
- Scope and content:
- A miscellany.Fols 1r-42vMiscellany.קובץFols 1r-4vḤidah.חידהNote: Written in twenty stanzas, with explanations in Italian. A rough design of a mortar with a hand stirring it, with accompanying words, is given on folio 3v and 4r.Fols 5r-6vMaḥzor minhag Roma le-Rosh ha-Shanah.מחזור מנהג רומא לראש השנהNote: Folio 5 contains the conclusion of the ritual for the second day of the New Year's feast. Folio 6 contains a fragment of the ritual for the fast of Gedaliah.Fols 7r-36vZohar ḥadash.זהר חדשNote: Fragments of the Zohar ḥadash on the Song of Songs, accompanied by a commentary (in smaller characters).Fols 37r-37vḤibur bi-refu᾿ah (fragment).חבור ברפואהFols 38r-39vMaḥzor ha-moladot.מחזור המולדותNote: A fragment containing the cycles of the new moon.Fols 40r-40vAuthor: Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697 (זכות, משה בן מרדכי)Shirim.שיריםNote: The first poem begins with ארים בקול בוכיה , and the second: הודי נהפך / לבי נשפך. The first poem contains an acrostic: אני משה זכות.Fols 41r-42vShir.שירNote: In the main piece every word begins with the letter alef. Below it are some verses divided into three strophes. The verso is mostly a doodle-page.Fols 42r-42vTeshuvah be-῾inyan birkat kohanim.תשובה בענין ברכת כהניםNote: On the verso of the page there are some accounts in Arabic (in Hebrew characters), all of which have been crossed through.
- Access points: locations:
- Rome
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai
- Subject terms:
- Jewish holidays
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Access, restrictions:
- You need to be a registered Reader in order to request items to a Reading Room.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-003313933Digital Version see http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27213Guide to Hebrew Collections see https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/hebrew-collections
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25