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Or 10228

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Or 10228
Title:
Shemesh ha-Sharon by Shimshon Friedburg
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
35 folios (35+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1847
Date Range:
1800-1847
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Fridburg, Shimshon Aryeh ben Mosheh Avraham
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
פרידבורג, שמשון אריה בן משה אברהם
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Or 10228

Shemesh ha-Sharon by Shimshon Friedburg

Contents

Moral tales in rhymed prose.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-34v
Author: Fridburg, Shimshon Aryeh ben Mosheh Avraham פרידבורג, שמשון אריה בן משה אברהם
Title: שמש השרון: ספורי מוסר בפרוזה חרוזה
Title: Shemesh ha-Sharon: sipure musar bi-frozah ḥaruzah

Shimshon Fridburg (1745-1827), maskil living in Hamburg.

The author’s name appears at the end of the composition on fol. 34v.

Partially erased note by the scribe(?) on front pastedown containing a date: Elul 607 (1847).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: coat of arms with a rampant lion?, partially visible.
Extent: 35 folios (35+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 146 × 94 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil both in the upper and in the lower left corner. Hebrew foliation by the scribe starting on fol. 2 (fol. 2= fol. א), after the title page (fol. 1).

Collation

10 quires: i2 (front pastedown and fol. 1), ii-ix4, x4-1.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Left margin is not justified.

First word of each new section is in square script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Printed paper binding, quarter-bound (red leather spine), with Moses Gaster's label; boxed.

History

Origin: 1800-1847 19th century (not after 1847) Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 102; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 15 September 1927.

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10228 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    מלאכי, צבי, "'שמש השרון' לשמשון פרידבורג: לביקורת החברה היהודית במאה השמונה-עשרה", בתוך: בין הסטוריה לספרות: ספר יובל ליצחק ברזילי ([תל-אביב] : הקיבוץ המאוחד, [1997]), ע' קצא-רלד.

Bibliography

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