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Or 10196

Record Id:
032-003352422
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10196
Title:
Collection of Judeo-Persian poetical works.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
150 folios (iii+150+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10196 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham ben Samuel ibn Hasdai
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10196

Collection of Judeo-Persian poetical works.

Contents

A collection of Judeo-Persian poetical works.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-144r
Author: אלישע בן שמואל Elishaʻ ben Shemuʾel, active 17th century
Title: Shāhzādeh u Ṣūfī
Title: שהזאדה וצופי

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat in a Judaeo-Persian metrical version, based on Ben ha-melekh veha-nazir of Abraham ben Samuel ibn Hasdai.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Filiation:

See also British Library Or 4731, item 8; Or 4744, item 1; Or 10711, item 1.

References

For a more detailed description see Meredith-Owens 1968, page 38.
ff. 144r-150r
Author:
Title: Ḥikāyat-i ān sih Yahūdān-i tājir

The story of Solomon and the three merchants, in verse.

Filiation:

See also British Library Or. 4731, item 9; Or. 4744, item 2; Or. 10711, item 2.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, fols. 1-92 and 115-150: some of the leaves have a bluish tone, fols. 93-114: blue paper; fragments of watermarks are visible: a crowned figure holding a staff(?); a word with Cyrillic or Greek characters(?).
Extent: 150 folios (iii+150+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 172 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil in the middle of the lower margin.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; fol. 1= fol. ח; according to this 7 leaves are missing from the beginning, and there is a lacuna after fol. 12,

The orientation of the binding is landscape but the orientation of the text is portrait.

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Catchword on every verso (fols. 93-114: catchword on every page).

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Left margin is not very even.

Fols. 93-114: the entire quire is on blue paper, ruling was done with mastara.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square and semi-square scripts.

Fols. 93-114: different, neater hand.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding: half-bound. Boxed.

Spine: 'Shāhzādeh u ṣūfī. Jud.-Pers. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 10196.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 937: inscribed with his name on front flyleaf (iii)r, fols. 1r, 150r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 May 1930: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)r.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10196 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    G. M. Meredith-Owens, G. M. Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966 (London, 1968), p. 42.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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