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Or 9949

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Or 9949
Title:
Commentary on the Prophets by Samuel Laniado
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
204 folios (i+204+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1550-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Laniado, Samuel ben Abraham, d 1605,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110942876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59444370
Laniado, Samuel ben Abraham, d 1605,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110942876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59444370
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Or 9949

Commentary on the Prophets by Samuel Laniado

Contents

Commentary on the Prophets by Samuel Laniado in 3 volumes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-204v
Author: Laniado, Samuel ben Abraham, -1605 לניאדו, שמואל בן אברהם
Title: פרוש נביאים: הושע, יואל, עמוס, עובדיה, יונה, נחום, חבקוק, מיכה
Title: Perush Neviʼim: Hoshea, Yoel, Amos, Ovadiah, Yonah, Naḥum, Habaḳuḳ, Mikhah

Volume 1 (Or 9948) contains Jeremiah and Ezekiel (incomplete).

Volume 2 (Or 9949) contains Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk and Micah.

Volume 3 (Or 9950) contains Zephaniah-Malachi.

Autograph?

ff. 1r-62v
Title: Commentary on Hosea
ff. 63r-79v
Title: Commentary on Joel
ff. 80r-124v
Title: Commentary on Amos
ff. 125r-125v
Title: Commentary on Obadiah

The section on Obadiah continues on fols. 134r-140r.

ff. 126r-129v
Title: Commentary on Habakkuk

The section on Habakkuk continues on fol. 160v.

ff. 130v-133v
Title: Commentary on Micah

The section on Micah continues on fol. 172r.

ff. 134r-140r
Title: Commentary on Obadiah (cont.)
ff. 140v-149v
Title: Commentary on Jonah
ff. 150r-160r
Title: Commentary on Nahum
ff. 160v-161v
Title: Commentary on Habakkuk (cont.)

The section on Habakkuk continues on fol. 164r.

ff. 162r-163v
Title: A fragment of the commentary on Jeremiah

This bifolium is written by a different hand.

ff. 164r-171v
Title: Commentary on Habakkuk (cont.)

The section on Habakkuk continues on fol. 181r.

ff. 172r-180v
Title: Commentary on Micah (cont.)

The section on Micah continues on fol. 185r.

f. 180v
Title: Commentary on Nahum (cont.)

This is the beginning of the section on Nahum.

ff. 181r-184v
Title: Commentary on Habakkuk (cont.)

The section on Habakkuk continues on fol. 197r.

ff. 185r-188v
Title: Commentary on Micah (cont.)

The section on Micah continues on fol. 190r.

ff. 189r-190r
Title: Commentary on Jonah (cont.)
ff. 190r-196v
Title: Commentary on Micah (cont.)

This is the beginning of the section on Micah.

ff. 197r-204v
Title: Commentary on Habakkuk (cont.)

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark with a three-leaved shamrock.
Extent: 204 folios (i+204+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 253 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Parallel pagination in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

The quires (mostly of 10 leaves) were rebound in the wrong order.

Catchwords sometimes only on the versos, sometimes on rectos as well.

Condition

Very fragile leaves, many of them patched, some lined with silk gauze (e.g. fol. 94, 101).

Usage stains, extensive water damage, mould, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Fols. 162-163: different hand?

Fols. 77-82: have a different layout: lines are curved upwards, line spacing denser; perhaps different hand?

Some marginal notes.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Calculations in the outer margins (e.g. fols. 1r, 133v, 162r, 162v, 163v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Samuel Laniado. Commentary on Jeremiah, Ezekiel, & Minor Prophets. Hebrew. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9949.'

History

Origin: second half of the 16th century - 17th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1681: inscribed with his monogramme on back flyleaf (i)v, upside down; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v: date of accession 14 February 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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