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Or 10138/1

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Or 10138/1
Title:
Midrash Leḳaḥ ṭov by Yosef Pinṭo, vol. 1
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
148 folios (iii+148+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10138/1 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1876
End Date:
1876
Date Range:
1876
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Pinṭo, Yosef, d 1820?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066030860,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/91148919
Pinṭo, Yosef, d 1820?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066030860,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/91148919
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10138/1

Midrash Leḳaḥ ṭov by Yosef Pinṭo, vol. 1

Contents

Homiletic commentaries and novellae on the weekly portions of the Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-148v
Author: Pinṭo, Yosef, -1819 or 1820 פינטו, יוסף בן יעקב
Title: מדרש לקח טוב
Title: Midrash Leḳaḥ ṭov

Volume 1 of a 2-volume set; for volume 1, see Or 10138/2.

At the end on back flyleaf (i)v, there is a note by Refa’el Yosef Ibn Shoshanah about Avraham ha-Levi’s attempts to print the book in the year 1904/5 and approbation by Yehudah ibn Moyal in the city of Mogador [Essaouira] and by Me’ir Za’afrana; and the stamp of Yehudah ibn Moyal.

Colophon: In volume 2: (Or 10138/2, fol. 176v): "ברוך המקום שזכני להשלים זה הספר של הרב ... יוסף פינטו זצוק"ל ... ש’ ל’ש’ו’ש’ ... אני דוד ... אלפאסי".

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 148 folios (iii+148+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185/190 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

148 folios (+ 1 modern and 1 older unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 older and 1 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Foliation in Arabic numerals, in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Hebrew characters by the scribe.

Collation

13 quires: i-xii12, xiii4.

Catchword in every page.

Condition

Some leaves are patched.

A few stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Number of written lines varies page by page (36-38 lines).

Parashiyot as running titles in the upper margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Note on front flyleaf [ii]v about the content of the MS.

Binding

BL in-house, boxed. The old red leather binding is boxed together with the codex.

History

Origin: 1876 Orient (Morocco?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, (not listed); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

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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