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Or 9980

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032-003354974
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Or 9980
Title:
Collection of sermons and halakhical texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
58 folios (i+58+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1749
Date Range:
1700-1749
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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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 9980

Collection of sermons and halakhical texts

Contents

A collection of sermons for Sabbaths from the years 5488-5491 (1727/8-1730/1) and various halakhical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-58v
Author:
Title: דרשות לשבתות מן השנים תפ"ח-תצ"א, חדושי הלכה ותלמוד, אגרות, שו"ת ועוד
Title: Derashot le-Shabatot min ha-shanim 488-491, ḥidushe halakhah ṿe-Talmud, igrot, Shut ṿe-ʻod

Contains: Shemot Gitin (formulary of names for divorce documents) which were copied from the MS of "Rabbi Me’ir Ibn Benishti’s daughter" (fol. 21r), "Parpera’ot la-Hokhmah [amusing sayings of wisdom] by Rabbi Eshel" (fols. 22r-23r), "reasons given by Ibn Habib" (fols. 31v-33r), "Abridged responsa of Farji Mahama" (fols. 34r-35v), various versions of shetarot (legal documents) and Gitin (divorce documents) (fol. 50r etc.).

Among other items, one from the year תפ"ז (in 1727/8): the emissary Hiya ben Mosheh "known as Hayun" is mentioned, a text "a copy names by [..] Yosef ha-Levi" (fol. 52v), novellae by מהריק"ס (Ya’akov Kastro) (fols. 53v-55r), regulations "concerning renting yards and houses [..] from Egypt" (fols. 55r-55v), a copy from the responsum of Avraham Sekhander which was copied by Avraham Halevi (author of Ginat Veradim) (fol. 56v), from the writings of David Gershon (ibid).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; AC monogram with shamrock in between; traces of another watermark: medallion.
Extent: 58 folios (i+58+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink shows that at least 10 leaves are missing from the beginning (fol. 1 = fol. יא). Hebrew foliation includes leaves, which are unfoliated in the Arabic foliation.

Numerous foliated and unfoliated blank leaves. 26 blank leaves between f. 20 and f. 21 (they are not displayed in the digital surrogate).

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

No catchwords.

Condition

Water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Leaves are very fragile, with some holes (worm damage).

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Homilies, &c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9980.'

History

Origin: 1st half of the 18th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 399: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 163v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession 16 March 1928: inscribed on fol. 163v.

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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