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Or 9995

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Or 9995
Title:
Novellae on the Talmud and homilies
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
89 folios (i+89+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1850
Date Range:
1700-1850
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9995

Novellae on the Talmud and homilies

Contents

A fragmentary collection of ḥidushim on the Talmud and derushim.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-89v
Title: חדושים בתלמוד ודרושים
Title: Ḥidushim be-Talmud u-derushim

The years , and 499(?) (1738/9?) (f. 28v), and 589 (1828/9) (f. 58r) are mentioned.

Incomplete at the beginning and end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark is partially visible: a unicorn? (fol. 8).
Extent: 89 folios (i+89+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink: fol. 3 = fol. מז. It shows that there are leaves missing at the beginning.

Collation

Leaves and sometimes bifolia on guards.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage, smudged ink.

Leaves at the beginning and especially towards the end are more severely damaged. Several leaves are patched and/or lined with silk gauze.

Layout

Columns:1

Very narrow margins.

Marginal notes, sometimes running vertically in the margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house. Remains of previous binding - front and back cover: red leather, blind-tooled - are fixed onto the front and back pastedowns.

Spine: 'Homilies. &c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9995.'

History

Origin: 18th - first half of the 19th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on fol. 1r about acqusition: 'M. Gaster Jerusalem 17.v.07.'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 946: inscribed with his name on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 November 1929: 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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