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Or 6833

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Or 6833
Title:
Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim) by Joseph Karo
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
335 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6833 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
Weiss & Co.
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6833

Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim) by Joseph Karo

Contents

Parts of Shulḥan ʿarukh.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-335v
Title: Shulḥan arukh (Oraḥ ḥayim)
Title: שלחן ערוך (ארח חיים)

Includes the commentaries of Moses ben Tsevi Naftali Hirsch (Be᾿er ha-golah), in the upper part of the outer margin; Shetile zetim of David ben Shelomoh Mizrahi of Sana, on the outer side of the page; Revid ha-zahav, collected from the writings of David ben Shelomoh Mizrahi and his son Yahya; and Yahya Tsalih's Shoshanat ha-melekh.

Folios 219r-225v embody sections from Hilkhot rosh ḥodesh of Mordekhai Yafe's Levush ha-ḥor (preceded by the compiler's introductory remarks on folio 218v).

The tables of Hezekiyah de Silva are given on folio 221v sqq. The part headed Ḥeshbon ha-teḳufot (folio 223r) appears to be taken from another source.

The number of sections in the entire work is 697.

Author: Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim קרו, יוסף בן אפרים

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 335 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

335 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, with two inner leaves being parchment.

Condition

Textblock in simple case binding with hollow and tiny squares.

Box binding converted to detached outer case. Spine splitting at joints and tears at headcap.

White accretion on front board.

Usage stains, finger grease in margins.

Two abrasions across foredge.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 15 30

Written lines: 15 30

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words and chapter titles.

Running titles.

Catchwords on every page.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Folio 1 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Portions of a Service Book (Psalms) pasted on one of the end flyleaves.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled case, with clasps.

History

Origin: 18th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Weiss & Co.: purchased by the British Museum on 11 April 1908: inscribed, folio [337v].

1901-12-06

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6833 (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. 1159.

Funding of Cataloguing

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