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Or 10172

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032-003319999
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Or 10172
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic charms and prescriptions
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
14 folios (ii+14+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
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 10172

Collection of kabbalistic charms and prescriptions

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic charms and prescriptions

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-14v
Author:
Title: סגלות, קמעות, לחשים והשבעות
Title: Segulot, ḳemeʻot, leḥashim ṿe-hashbaʽot

In Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

The index at the beginning contains 63 simanim, but the current MS includes only 46 simanim; incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; watermark: tre-lune.
Extent: 14 folios (ii+14+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 118 × 83 mm.
Dimensions (written): 80 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

A single quire of 14 leaves.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Slight water damage, a few stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 14

Paragraph numbers (simanim) in the outer margin.

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Green cloth binding with M. Gaster's label: סגולות 214.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's acquisition note on fol. 1r: 'The gift of L. Heyman Nov. 97'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 214: inscribed with his name on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 8 February 1928: 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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