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Or 9973

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032-003352723
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Or 9973
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
75 folios (i+75+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1809
End Date:
1809
Date Range:
1809
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aaron ben Turi
Berdugo, Yehudah, 1690-1744
Berdugo, Yehudah, 1690-1744
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jacob ben Mordecai, of Fulda,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000003945051X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/73382389
Jacob ben Mordecai, of Fulda,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000003945051X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/73382389
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9973

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous works

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-18v
Author: Berdugo, Yehudah, 1690-1744 ברדוגו, יהודה בן יוסף
Title: מים עמוקים
Title: Mayim ʿamuḳim

A collection of brief, homiletical notes on the Pentateuch.

Colophon by the scribe Aaron ben Turi.

Colophon: "נשלם ס’ מים עמוקים אור ליום ו’ בש’ כח לח’ חשון ש’ תקס"ט לפ"ק ע"י אני ... ישעיה בן לא"א ... אהרן טורי י"ץ". f. 18v
ff. 19r-51r
Author:
Title: ספר הרפואות
Title: Sefer ha-refuʾot

A collection of medical prescriptions.

ff. 52r-68v
Author: Jacob ben Mordecai, of Fulda יעקב בן מרדכי, מפולדה ‬
Title: שושנת יעקב
Title: Shoshanat Yaʿaḳov

A manual of palmistry.

Colophon:
ff. 70r-75v
Author:
Title: רפואות ההשתנה
Title: Refuʾot ha-hashtanah

Prescriptions for urinary disorders.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 75 folios (i+75+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 106 × 73 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 60 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Unfoliated blank leaf between 59 and 60, two unfoliated blank leaves between fol. 26 and 27 and between fol. 63 and 64. Fol. 51v is blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Slight worm damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible in places.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Sephardi cursive and square script of the 19th century.

Additions:

Lists (fols. 64r, 74v). Notes on the content of the MS on front pastedown (by M. Gaster?).

Binding

Leather binding, blind-tooled.

Spine: 'Miscellany. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9973.'

History

Origin: 1809

Provenance and Acquisition

Death records from between 5606-5607 (1845/6-1846/7) on fol. 69r.

Death records of members of the Toledano family from between 5534-5564 on fols. 75r-75v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 40: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r and 75v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession 27 July 1927: inscribed on fol. 75v.

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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