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Or 9975

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Or 9975
Title:
A collection of biblical commentaries and sermons
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
206 folios (i+206+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1649
Date Range:
1550-1649
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
Laniado, Abraham ben Isaac, 1545-1619,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066289397,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/46650806
Laniado, Abraham ben Isaac, 1545-1619,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066289397,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/46650806
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9975

A collection of biblical commentaries and sermons

Contents

A collection of biblical commentaries and sermons.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-206v
Author: Laniado, Abraham ben Isaac לניאדו, אברהם בן יצחק
Title: דרשות ובאורים על המקרא ועל מאמרי חז"ל במדרש ובתלמוד
Title: Derashot u-veʼurim ʻal ha-Miḳra ṿe-ʻal maʼamre Ḥazal ba-Midrash uva-Talmud

A collection of homilies and notes on biblical and rabbinical passages by a Turkish rabbi of the second half of the 16th century, perhaps Abraham ben Isaac Laniado?. There is a reference to the author's Magen Avraham on fol. 66r, line 10. The MS contains portions of commentaries on the Psalms, Job, and Proverbs and Abraham ben Isaac Laniado is known to have written such commentaries (see his preface in Magen Avraham).

Autograph?

Fol. 30v: "דרשה שדרשתי על פטירת אבא מארי ועטרת ראשי ... קודם ר"ח סיוון משנת השס"ז".

Fol. 149v: A reference to Elijah ibn Hayim.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark with motif of anchor in circle with six-pointed star above, similar to Piccard-online no. 119042 (dated Venezia, 1573) (https://www.piccard-online.de).
Extent: 206 folios (i+206+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 211 × 151 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Parallel Hebrew foliation shows that the MS is incomplete at the beginnning: fol. 1 is fol. 34 (fol. לד) according to the Hebrew foliation.

Catchwords in some pages including last page (fol. 206v), which shows that the MS is incomplete at the end.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Water damage, mould, usage stains, smudged ink, worm damage.

Numerous leaves have been patched, reinforced.

Fingerprint on fol. 44v.

Layout

Columns:1

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive and square scripts of the 16th-17th century.

Fols. 199-206 seems to be written by a different hand.

Decoration

Additions:

Additions: fols. 115v-122r: piyutim by Israel ben Moses Najara; fols. 194v-195r: medical prescriptions.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Homilies on Bible &c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9975.'

History

Origin: Second half of the 16th century - first half of the 17th century. ; Orient or Venice?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 497; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession 24 August 1928: inscribed on fol. 206v.

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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