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Or 10179

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Or 10179
Title:
Benedictions
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
13 folios (iv+13+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10179

Benedictions

Contents

Benedictions (berakhot) for different occasions.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-11v
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian
Author:
Title: ברכות
Title: Berakhot

The benedictions are introduced with Italian titles or instructions: "Benenedizione[sic] che si dice dopo lavate le mani alla matina", "Benedizione che si dice avanti di mangiare", "Benedizione che si dice dopo di aver mangiato", "Benedizione che si dice di andar a dormire", "Benedizione che si dice alla mattina bacciando il ציצית dell' ארבע פינות", "Benedizione del taled" (wrapping oneself into the tallit), "Benedizione che si dice quando si mettono i תפילין", "Benedizione dei che si dice se [in]fallante mente si parlasse dopo della la prima", "Benedizione che si dice quando si va alla Bibbia", "Dopo la lettura dira questo"' "Benedizione che si dice quando si eleva la sacra Bibbia", "Benedizione si dice quando si beve acqua", "Dopo bevuto si dice", "Per quando si beve vino".

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19thcentury.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines, no watermark
Extent: 13 folios (iv+13+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 99 × 72 mm.
Dimensions (written): 78 × 53 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Parallel foliation in Arabic numerals in ink, beginning with 2 (=fol. 1), that is, a leaf must be missing from the beginning of the codex.

Collation

A single quire of 14 leaves. There are two narrow sheets around the quire as reinforcement, and there are two guards to hold the additional two parchment bifolia at the back.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Ruling in pencil, visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script with punctuation and Italian cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Two parchment leaves are added at the back foliated as fols. 12 and 13 containing the benediction after meals in presence of three or more diners. On fol. 12r: "נוסח ברכת הזימון". Fol. 12v is blank, fol. 13v has only the beginning of a Hebrew word 'nev[arekh]'. Both are written in square script. Fol. 12 is numbered as [C.G.] 1023b and probably was taken out from a binding, and fol. 13 is numberes as [C.G.] 1023a.

Binding

Black cloth binding.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: 'תפלות 1023'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Date in the upper right corner: '1835. I. genario'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1023; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

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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