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Or 9933

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032-003316997
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Or 9933
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
308 folios (ii+308+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9933 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1853
End Date:
1853
Date Range:
1853
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Bertinoro, Obadiah, approximately 1450-approximately 1516
Bertinoro, Obadiah, c 1450-1516
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Saadiah (Yemenite poet)
Ṿenṭurah, Mosheh ben Yosef, active 16th century
וינטורה, משה בן יוסף
משה בן מימון
סעדיה (פיטן תימני)
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9933

Miscellany

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-67v
Author: Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340 יעקב בן אשר
Title: פירוש התורה - בעל הטורים
Title: Perush ha-Torah - Baʿal ha-Ṭurim

Biblical commentary by Jacob ben Asher.

ff. 68r-68v
Author: Saadiah (Yemenite poet) סעדיה (פיטן תימני)
Title: פיוטים לברכת המזון
Title: Piyuṭim le-virkat ha-mazon

Two piyutim.

ff. 68v-69v
Author: Bertinoro, Obadiah, approximately 1450-approximately 1516 עובדיה בן אברהם מברטנורא
Title: פרוש המשנה (חולין ג:א)
Title: Perush ha-Mishnah (Ḥulin 3:1)

ff. 70r-71v
Author:
Title: Responsa on the ritual slaughter

ff. 72v-122v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: משנה תורה (ספר קדושה, הלכות שחיטה)
Title: Mishneh torah (Sefer ḳedushah, Hilkhot sheḥitah)

ff. 123r-306v
Author: Ṿenṭurah, Mosheh ben Yosef, active 16th century וינטורה, משה בן יוסף
Title: ימין משה
Title: Yemin Mosheh

According to the colophon the MS was copied by Zechariah ben Saadia al-Basal for Yeḥiah ben Soliman al-Zawqa' (?).

Colophon: "ספרא ... זכריה ן’ לא"א סעדיא ן’ הזקני שלם מוה"ר יודא תנצב"ה ן’ מהר"י אלבאסל ... ונשלם יום ב’ כט שבת שנת ב’קס"ד ע"ש התלמיד ... מי’ יחיא ן’ סלימאן אלמכונא אלזוקאע יצ"ו" f. 307v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 308 folios (ii+308+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 162 × 107 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in the outer left corner of the leaves.

Collation

Indeterminable (too tight binding).

Catchword on each page, when text is in two columns, at the end of each column.

Condition

Stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:2

Columns: fols. 1-123 in 1 column, fols. 124-307 in two columns.

A few deletions of words.

Ruling is visible (with mastara?).

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive and square scripts of the 19th century.

Fols. 1r-71v: Yemenite semi-cursive script.

Fols. 72r-307v: Yemenite square and semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding, half-bound.

Spine: 'Jacob ben Asher Ba'al haṭ-ṭūrīm&c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9933.'

History

Origin: 1853 Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 67; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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