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About this Item

Title

  • Ner Mitsvah

Created / Published

  • 16-17th century (after 1567).

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Oriental-Sephardic semi-cursive script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  Ner Mitsvah, commentary on Solomon ibn Gabirol's Azharot, by Moses b. Hayyim Pesante. Undoubtedly copied from the first printed edition, Constantinople 1567, including the index at the end in which the references are only to the folio numbers in the edition that do not conform to those added later in this manuscript. Glosses and some corrections in the margins by another more cursive hand. Defective at end. Some worming. Deinard, 1914. MMW.

Medium

  • 55 ff. Laid and chain-lined paper. ; 20.5 x 15.2 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 9
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/9

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757626

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Hebraic Section Manuscript Collection

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