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Or 9964

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032-003320312
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Or 9964
Title:
Miscellaneous texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
55 folios (ii+55+xii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1923
Date Range:
1900-1923
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Grossberg, Menasseh, rabbinical scholar, c 1860-1927
Grossberg, Menasseh, rabbinical scholar, c 1860-1927
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9964

Miscellaneous texts

Contents

A collection of modern transcripts made by Menasseh Grossberg.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-7r
Author:
Title: דברי הימים של משה רבינו
Title: Divre ha-yamim shel Mosheh Rabenu

Copy from an unspecified manuscript.

Note by Menasseh Grossberg on front flyleaf(ii)v: דברי הימים של משה נמצא בכ"י משונה מאוד אבל ניזה סיבה הפסקתי מלהעתיק. Addition by M. Gaster (?): ונעתק אח"כ כולו בכ"י [...] 395.

ff. 8r-38r
Author:
Title: קינה עם נחמה
Title: Ḳinah ʻim neḥamah

Copy of London, British Library, Add MS 27129 (http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27129).

Note by Moses Gaster on front flyleaf(ii)v: קינה עם נחמה לבני ר' יחיאל.

Incipit on fol. 8r: "קינה עם נחמה לבני כמוהר"ר יחיאל ור"ם ע"ה מאת ק"ק פיסה ע"י ה"ר שלמה יר’ מקמירינו"

Note by Menasseh Grossberg on fol. 8r: נעתק מבריטש מוזעום בלונדן.

ff. 39r-55r
Author: אברבנאל, יצחק בן יהודה Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Title: אגרת אברבנאל אל יחיאל ור"ם מפיסה
Title: Igeret Abravanel el Yeḥiʼel ṿe-R. M. mi-Pisah

Copy of London, British Library, Add MS 27129, fols. 187v-191r (http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27129).

Note by Moses Gaster on front flyleaf(ii)v: איגרות נחמה מאת דון יצחק אברבנל.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Pre-ruled modern paper
Extent: 55 folios (ii+55+xii)
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 94 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, in pencil.

Numerous unfoliated blank leaves at the end.

Collation

No signatures, no catchwords.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Text only on the verso side of the leaves.

Marbled fore edge.

A few notes on the verso side of the leaves.

Some underlining in red pencil.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the early 20th century.

Copied by Menasseh Grossberg (1860-1927).

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, red leather binding.

Spine: 'Brit. Mus. OR. 9964. Dibre hayyamim shel - Mosheh, &c. Hebrew.'

History

Origin: Early 20th century (before 1924) ; London

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 365; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf (xi)v); date of accession: 14 March 1928: inscribed on f. 55v.

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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