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Or 10151

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Or 10151
Title:
Collection of texts for the Ninth of Av
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
74 folios (i+74+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Shelomoh ben Yehudah
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Or 10151

Collection of texts for the Ninth of Av

Contents

Collection of texts for the Ninth of Av in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-59v
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: קינות לתשעה באב
Title: Ḳinot le-Tishʻah be-Av

Including lamentation liturgies for Ninth of Av (1a-9), the kerovah for the Ninth of Av, וארץ שפל רומי ונקלה כבודי by Shelomoh ben Yehudah, and daytime lamentations for the Ninth of Av.

Incomplete at the beginning (Hebrew foliation shows that at least 6 leaves are missing).

ff. 60r-61r
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Title: מספורי החורבן בערבית
Title: Me-sipure ha-Ḥurban be-ʿaravit

Stories of the destruction of the Temple in Judeo-Arabic.

Incomplete.

ff. 62r-74v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Title: הפטרה לט"ב בתרגום ערבי
Title: Hafṭarah la-Ṭ[isha] b[e-Av] be-targum ʿaravi

Jeremiah 8:13-9:24 in Arabic translation.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper withg laid lines and chain lines; watermark is partially visible: "ALLA ... COL...".
Extent: 74 folios (i+74+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 117 × 90 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90 × 62 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil not counting the blank leaves between fols. 59 and 60 and fols. 60 and 61. Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink (fol. 1=fol. ז), which includes the blank leaves.

Collation

13 quires: i4, ii8, iii8-3, iv-xi8, xii6, xiii4. Quire ix, x, and xi also includes unfoliated blank leaves.

Lacunae after fols. 4, 64, 70.

There is no lacuna between fol. 17 and 18, thus the 3 leaves which were cut off at the end of quire iii, must have been removed during production.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Not uniform layout.

Initial words at the beginning of sections are in bigger, square script, often decorated.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive and square scripts.

Decoration

Decorated initial words (e.g. 56v).

Pen drawing of a human figure and a plant? on fol. 61bv.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, green cloth binding.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: 'קינות Maroco & HebrArab Haftara XVII.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1493: inscribed with his name on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 23 March 1932: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)r.

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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