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Or 10197

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Or 10197
Title:
Maśkil shir ha-yedidot by Moshe ibn Zur
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
50 folios (50+i)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ibn Zur, Moshe, 17th century-18th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000073370388,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/38220649
Ibn Zur, Moshe, 17th century-18th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000073370388,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/38220649
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Or 10197

Maśkil shir ha-yedidot by Moshe ibn Zur

Contents

Rhymed version of the Halakhot of Shulhan Arukh.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-50v
Author: Ibn Zur, Moshe, active 17th century-18th century אבן צור, משה בן יצחק
Title: משכיל שיר הידידות
Title: Maśkil shir ha-yedidot

Orah Hayim simanim I-CL, CCXXXIV onward, regarding the Halakhot of praying.

Hebrew title (added by later hand) on fol. 1r: "דינים משולחן ערוך בדרך שיר מר' משה בן צור מקאשטילא" followed by Latin note (by the same hand?): "(Idest) Praecepta Mosaica, carmine reditta, auctore Rabbino Mose Ben Tzur. (Ita Edelmannus supra scripsit.) [illegible monogramme]".

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark is partially visible: a crowned shield with a cross inside; two medallions, one with the monogramme 'LB'(?).
Extent: 50 folios (50+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 92 × 149 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Fol. 1 is on guard, and it is not part of the first quire.

Collation

7 quires: i-iv8, vi8-1, vi6, vii4.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 17

Orientation of text is landscape.

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive and square script.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

White parchment binding, remains of a strap (blue and white thread). Boxed.

Spine with a label: 'גנזי מיליארד בלונדון - B.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Book plate of the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Mill-yard (pasto glued onto front pastedown, inner back cover and spine: גנזי מיליארד בלונדון - B.

Notes on front pastedown: "(Codex Africa No. 11.)"; "Nondum [...] est, ait [...]vicz"; "Presented to me by Mr Chozner(?) 7th Day of Pesah 5668: 22.4.908. M. Gaster".

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 998: inscribed with his name on fols. 2r, 50v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 23 April 1931: inscribed on paper slip glued to inner cover.

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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