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Or 11337

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032-003314148
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11337
Title:
Sefer ha-musar by Zechariah Dhahiri
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
167 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11337 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Dhahiri, Zechariah ben Seʿadiah, poet and scholar, c 1519-1589
Dhahiri, Zechariah ben Seʿadiah, poet and scholar, c 1519-1589
Dr A. S. Yahuda
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11337

Sefer ha-musar by Zechariah Dhahiri

Contents

Autobiographical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-167v
Title: Sefer ha-musar
Title: ספר המוסר
Author: Dhahiri, Zechariah, 1519?-1589?h צאהרי, זכריה בן סעדיה

A description of author's travels to Egypt, Palestiane and Syria.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Torn endpaper.

Usage stains.

Occasional ink burn-though.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Modern notebook, ruled.

Initials in larger script.

Running titles.

Catchwords on most of the pages.

Hebrew foliation.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

Post 1800. Brown leather.

Spine: 'Zechariah Al-Zahiri. Sepher Ham-Musar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,337.'

History

Origin: 19th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1931-10-10

Acquired by exchange from Dr A. S. Yahuda on 10 October 1931: inscribed, folio [168v].

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_11337 (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. 161., vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

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