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Or 9978
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9978
- Title:
- Collection of sermons
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 196 folios (i+196+i)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9978 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1600-1699
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 9978
Collection of sermons
Contents
A collection of sermons.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-196rTitle: דרשותTitle: DerashotIncomplete at the beginning.
It mentions among others: Mosheh Alashkar (fol. 25v) and "The Rabbi, author of Midrash Shmu’el" (Shmu’el De Uzida) (fol. 25r).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 17th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a circle with a monogramme?Extent: 196 folios (i+196+i)Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 141 mm.Dimensions (written): 164 × 102 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, which shows that at least 18 leaves are missing from the beginning of the MS: fol. 1=fol. יט.
Collation
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Layout
Columns:1
Hand(s)
Sephardi semi-cursive script of the 17th century.
Decoration
Additions:Fol. 196r-196v: a fragment of a text by a later, cursive hand.
Binding
BM in-house, blue cloth binding.
Spine: 'Expositions of Bible & Talmud. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9978.'
Accompanying Material
After fol. 196, there are two leaves from a printed book inserted to the end of the text block. They may have been found in the previous binding. One of them is a fol. 195 from Mikhtave me-Eliyahu by Eliyahu Alfandari ( Constantinople, 1723); the other one is from Sefer Bene Yaakov by Jacob Sasson ben Israel (Constantinople, 1714).
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscription by Alfandari(?) on fol. 1r in a calligraphic form: "[...]אלפאנדארי".
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 57; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accesion 20 July 1927: inscribed on fol. 196v.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9978 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Funding of Cataloguing
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