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Or 2537 A

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Or 2537 A
Title:
Patshegen ketav ha-dat by Caleb ben Elijah Afendopolo
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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118 folios
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1869
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1869
Date Range:
1869
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CE
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Names:
Afendopolo, Caleb ben Elijah, 1464?-1525,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066662008,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/25033206
Afendopolo, Caleb ben Elijah, 1464?-1525,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066662008,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/25033206
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Mosheh ha-Leṿi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2537 A

Patshegen ketav ha-dat by Caleb ben Elijah Afendopolo

Contents

A treatise on reading and writing of the Pentateuch and the Hafṭarot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118v
Title: Patshegen ketav ha-dat
Title: פתשגן כתב הדת
Author: Afendopolo, Caleb ben Elijah אפנדופולו, כלב בן אליהו

Folios 3r-4v contain an index to the chapters.

Folios 34r-36v contain a list of Haftarot of the pericopes of the Pentateuch according to the Constantinople rite.

Colophon of the author on folio 118r, colophon of the scribe on folio 118v.

Colophon: Colophon of the author: ובכאן ראינו לחתום הברכות : ובשלמותם נשלם הספר תהלה לאל : ובשלמתיו ביום שלישי לחדש טבת נזר לפרט האלף הששי: פה בכפר קדמיא אשר מעבר לים עיר קוסטונדינא רבתי אופק בוזנדיאו שכנגד פרקידוניש. f. 118r
Colophon: Colophon of the scribe: נכתב ונשלם העתקת זה הספר הנותן אמרי שפר ביום רביעי חמשה ועשרים לחדש מנחם שנת התרכט לפרט גדול פה בעיר מצרים יע"א על ידי צעיר המתחמדים והמתחזנים איש עני ואביון מתושבי ציון ומתפלל לאל עליון שיצילני ויגאלני מארץ מצרים [...] הצעיר משה הלוי ירו סט בלאאור כמוהרר אברהם הלוי הפקיד הנאמן הח' הש' המ' הרופא המובהק והמבואר זצ"ל בלאאור כמהר משה הלוי ירו' הפקיד הנאמן דקק ירושתו זל בלאאור כמוהרר שמואל הלוי ירו הפקיד הנאמן הח' הש' המ' זצ"ל בלאאור כמוהרר אברהם הלוי הח' הש' המ' מתושבי עיר דמשק זצ"ל בלאאור כמהרר אליהו הלוי הח' הש' המ' מתוזבי עיר דמשק זצ"ל. f. 118v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 118 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

118 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Bound together with two other manuscripts (Or 2537 B and Or 2537 C).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each.

Condition

Damp/mould stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Mosheh ha-Levi: his name inscribed on folio 118v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Kaleb Afendopolo. Pathshegen Kethab Had-Dat, Etc. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2537.'

History

Origin: ; Egypt

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [120v].

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2537_A (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 732.

Funding of Cataloguing

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