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Or 10088

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032-003317474
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Or 10088
Title:
Collection of halakhical texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
43 folios (i+43+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jakob Weil,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449265173,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/107313852
Jakob Weil,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449265173,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/107313852
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10088

Collection of halakhical texts

Contents

Collection of halakhical texts, originally 3 separate volumes, thus the 3 Gaster numbers.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 43 folios (i+43+i)

Binding

BM in-house, green cloth binding.

Spine: 'Compendia of Laws of Sheḥitah, etc. Jacob Weil and others. Hebrew & Italian. Brit. Mus. 10,088.'

History

Origin: 1700-1899

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 476, 541, 542: inscribed with his name (fols. 1r, 22v, 23r, 36r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-22r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: הלכות בדיקת הריאה : על דרך שאלות ותשובות
Title: Hilkhot bediḳat ha-reʾah : ʿal derekh sheʾelot u-teshuvot

Gaster 476.

Each set of question and response is numbered (128 altogether).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; with hardly visible watermark.
Extent: 22 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 158 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, from right to left.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

No signatures, no catchwords.

Condition

A few stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Pricking and ruling is visible. Ruling in pencil.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 18th-19th century. ;

Provenance

A sticker on fol. 22v with the number: 'no. 689'.

II

Contents

ff. 23r-35v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author: ויל, יעקב בן יהודה Weil, Jacob ben Judah, active 15th century
Title: בדיקות
Title: Bediḳot

Gaster 541.

Accompanied with Zevi Hirsh ben Jacob's commentary.

A few marginal notes.

Owner-produced manuscript: written by the scribe for himself.

Colophon: "נשלמו הבדיקות כמהר"ר יעקב וויל זצ"ל עם פירושים לקוטים של מהר"ר צבי [=צבי הירש ב"ר יעקב באכטונש] היום יום ה’ לחדש מרחשון שנת התקע"ד למבי". f. 32r

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermarks of a bird with spread wings and a crescent with facial features.
Extent: 10 folios (+ 2 unfoliated blank leaves [previously flyleaves?] at the beginning and at the end)
Dimensions (leaf): 171 × 122 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 88 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, continuous with previous part (fols. 23-33), from right to left.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on each verso.

Condition

A few stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Main text and commentary in separate columns.

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square and semi-cursive scripts.

Decoration

Additions:

Two certificates authorizing the scribe, Abraham Raphael ben Gabriel Finzi to practice sheḥitah. All dated 1813 (5574). One of them was written at the end of the manuscript on the same paper as the rest, the other one is a different paper folded and inserted into the work (currently foliated as fol. 34).

History

Origin: 1813 Italy

Provenance

Ownership inscriptions: "זאת הלכות בדיקה היא שלי אברהם רפאל ב"ג פנצי" (fol. 1r);"הצעיר גבריאל ב"ר אברהם פנצי", "Gabriele di Abraham Finzi" (verso of blank unfoliated leaf after fol. 35).

M. Gaster acquired it on 27 March 1898 (see date accompanied by his name on fol. 23r).

III

Contents

ff. 36r-43r
Language(s): Italian
Author:
Title: הלכות נדה
Title: Hilkhot nidah

Gaster 542.

In Italian.

Incipit: "Lezione di נדה, חלה, הדלקת הנר dedicate al merito singolare della Sig[or]a Eva Berla in Consolo"

Nidah discussed in 37 points.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 8 folios (+ 7 unfoliated blank leaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): × mm.
Foliation:

Foliation is in Arabic numerals with left to right.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

No catchwords.

Condition

A few stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Very narrow margins.

Some Hebrew terms, expressions in Hebrew script in otherwise Italian text.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script and Hebrew square script.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1824-08-17 Mantua

Additional Information

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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