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Or 10281
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- Or 10281
- Title:
- Prayers and liturgical poems for the dead
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 43 folios (iii+43+iii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10281 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1700-1899
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10281
Prayers and liturgical poems for the dead
Contents
A collection of prayers and liturgical poems for the dead.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-43vTitle: תפלות השכבה וקינות לנפטריםTitle: Tefilot hashkavah ṿe-ḳinot la-nifṭarimIncipit: סדר לשנה ראשונה של הנפטרMost of them were printed by M. Gaster from another MS in the memorial volume for Shmu’el Avraham Poznanski:Livre d'hommage à la mémoire du Dr. Samuel Poznański, 1864-1921, offert par les amis et les compagnons du travail scientifique. (Warsaw, 1927).
Fol. 32v: hashkavah for Rabbi Shmu’el de Medina (1506-1589).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, no trace of watermark.Extent: 43 folios (iii+43+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 136 × 95 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen (by M. Gaster?).
Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink shows that several leaves are missing at the beginning (starting from fol. 28?= fol. 1).
Collation
No catchwords.
Condition
Usage stains, water damage.
Fol. 28 has been fixed.
Layout
Columns:1
Uniform layout.
Section headings in larger characters.
Hand(s)
Oriental square script of the 18th-19th century
Decoration
Additions:Binding
BM in-house. Original black leather binding has been preserved, stored in a separate folder within the same box. It has M. Gaster's label on the spine: 'חשכבות 596.'
History
Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 596; 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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10281 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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