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Or 4861

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Or 4861
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
116 folios (i+116+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1829
End Date:
1829
Date Range:
1829
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Alukh, Mosheh ben Mordekhai (attributed to him)
J.L. Hirschensohn
Shalom Ṿizman
אלוך, משה בן מרדכי, (מחבר משוער)
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Or 4861

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-96v
Author: אלוך, משה בן מרדכי, (מחבר משוער) Alukh, Mosheh ben Mordekhai (attributed to him)
Title: שלמי צבור
Title: Shalme tsibur

Annotations on Tractate Sheḥiṭah of the Shulḥan ʿarukh.

Colophon: התנצלות הכותב - ותשלם ... מלאכת הקודש הלז' יום ה' בש' ז' לאדר שני ... ... ומשם הכותב שם החבור הלום משה ב’מרדכי אלוך. ברא כרעא די אבוהי אף על גב די נקט ברישא ולא היא ... התקפ"ט לפרט קטון f. 96v
Title: מנהגי שחיטה וטריפות
Title: Minhage sheḥiṭah u-ṭerefot
Colophon: זה החבור נכתב לתשוקת התלמיד ונעים המשכיל ונכון שלום בן לא"א משה אלוך f. 103r
ff. 104r-114v
Title: Dine sheḥiṭah u-ṭerefot be-ḥaruzim
Title: דיני שחיטה וטרפות בחרוזים
ff. 115r-116v
Title: ῾Et sofer
Title: עט סופר

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 116 folios (i+116+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 1v and 103v are blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Damp entry at foredge, large losses infilled.

Mould spotting, usage stains.

A few old repairs obscure text.

F. 114 is damaged, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Ff. 1-96: running title.

Some leaves left partly blank.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive and square script of the 19th century.

Additions:

F. 1ar: scribbles, pen trials, doodles.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Works on Hilkhot Shehitah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4861.'

History

Origin: 1829 Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase notes, two of them by a certainShalom Ṿizman, on f. 96v: אני ח"ל קניתי סיפר זה מאית דחפ(?) השלם והכולל פיר אברהם ן' עזרא קניתי ... שלם ויזמאן';וגם אני חל' קניתי אותו ... מא שכתוב בו אכיר ... שלם ויזמאן;ועכשו ... אני אברהם ן' עזרא.

Purchase note by the same Shalom Ṿizman on f. 103r: זה הסיפר קניתי ... מא שכתוב בו לשש אני וזרעי ... שלם ויזמאן

J.L. Hirschensohn: purchased by the British Museum from him on 11 February 1895; acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought ofJ. L. Hirschensohn Febr. 11. 1895'; date of accession 27 March 1895.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 154.vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL