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Or 10163

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032-003318798
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Or 10163
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
23 folios (i+23+i)
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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:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10163

Miscellany

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-23r
Author:
Title: לקוטי דרושים ועניינים אחרים
Title: Liḳuṭe deroshim ṿe-ʿinyanim aḥerim

Contains: "the story of Rabbi Akiva’s daughter who was attending to disciples" (ff. 4r-7v), bakashah by Sa’adyah Twil (ff. 8r-9v) which begins with: לכבוד שבת אקום בגילה, at the end of the bakashah are two signatures which are difficult to decipher. A commentary on circumcision - the customs of circumcision (ff. 14r-15v), the rules of Eruvin (comminglings) and a version of the blessing of Eruv tavshilin (mixing of dishes) (f. 16r). Ff. 17r-19r: signs of the Messiah, only from the seventh sign onward. Ff. 19v-23r: a version of ḥerem [ostracism].

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper (leaves of different sizes)
Extent: 23 folios (i+23+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 113 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

4 quires: i7+2, ii4-1, iii-iv6.

Catchwords on some pages.

Lacuna between fols. 11 and 12.

Condition

Folio edges are fragile, a few stains.

Fols. 11 and 12 are damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of rules and written lines varies.

Fols. 1-9: different size, different paper from the rest of the volume.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive scripts, at least 4 different scribes can be distinguished.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Maroon faux leather binding with label (by M. Gaster?); boxed.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Calligraphic ownership inscriptions (?) on fol. 9v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 257: inscribed with his name (fols. 1r,12~r, 23r); 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

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Funding of Cataloguing

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