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Or 10099

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032-003317669
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Or 10099
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
108 folios (ii+108+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1500-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10099

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 108 folios (ii+108+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 153 mm.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Responsa. Novellae etc. Solomon ibn Adret and others. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,099.'

History

Origin: 1500-1899

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 23; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-53v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author: Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310 אדרת, שלמה בן אברהם
Title: שאלות ותשובות מאת הרשב"א : בעניני קידושין
Title: Sheʾelot u-teshuvot me-et ha-Rashba: be-ʿinyene ḳidushin

Contains also responsa from the sages of Provence and Nahmanides.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; (watermark of a shamlock with cross and P(?) underneath)
Extent: 53 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 103 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on each page.

Condition

Paper patched, stains, slight water damage, a few worm holes patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 21

Running title on the upper margin: קדושין.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

II

Contents

ff. 54r-73v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: סדר הגט ושמות האנשים ונשים
Title: Seder ha-geṭ u-shemot ha-anashim ṿe-nashim

Rules for drawing up a deed of divorce (geṭ) with a list giving the correct forms of names of parties to such deeds, in alphabetical order.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 22 folios (fols. 54-75)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen, continuous with previous works in the volume.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Most of the leaves are patched and lined with silk gauze.

Stains and slight water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout varies page by page.

Sometimes text runs vertically on outer margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 19th century.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

III

Contents

ff. 74r-75r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: Some notes on passages in the works of Maimonides

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen, continuous with previous works in the volume.

Collation

A single bifolium on guard.

Condition

Smudged ink, stains, remains of glue(?) in inner margin.

Layout

Columns:1

Text extends to the margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 19th century.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance

IV

Contents

ff. 76r-82r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: כללים בדרכי הגמרא
Title: Kelalim be-darkhe ha-Gemara

A list of general statements found in the Gemara.

Fol. 79v: scribbles, lists, etc.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 7 folios (fols. 76-82)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 149 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen, continuous with previous works in the volume.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Slight water damage, stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:2

Running title in the upper margin: כללים בדרכי הגמרא.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

V

Contents

ff. 83r-108v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: חדושים על התלמוד
Title: Ḥidushim ʻal ha-Talmud

Fragments of novellae (ḥidushim) on tractates Megilah, Pesaḥim, and Bava metsia of the Babylonian Talmud.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 26 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen, continuous with previous works in the volume.

Collation

Condition

Most of the leaves lined with silk gauze.

Water damage (especially fols. 101-108).

Fol. 85 is badly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive and semi-cursive scripts. At least five different hands can be identified.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 16th-18th century ;

Provenance

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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