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Or 10001

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Or 10001
Title:
Meir ben Samuel's homilies
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
92 folios (92+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
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
Meir ben Samuel
מאיר בן שמואל ‬
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Or 10001

Meir ben Samuel's homilies

Contents

A collection of homilies by Meir ben Samuel.

Language(s): Yiddish, Hebrew

ff. 1r-92v
Author: Meir ben Samuel מאיר בן שמואל ‬
Title: דרשות
Title: Derashot

Volume 3 of a 5-volume set; bound together with volume 2, that is, Or 10000. Rest of the volumes: [BL] Or, 9999, [BL] Or 10002, [BL] Or 10003.

All the cataloguers before Allony and Loewinger attributed the work to Meir ben Anshel. Allony and Loewinger in their handlist, gave the name of the author as Meir ben Samuel. For more about the attribution, see Leonard Prager and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish Manuscripts in the British Library"eBLJ1995.

Mainly in Yiddish, with large sections of both text and commentary in Hebrew.

Scribal formula on back flyleaf (i)r: תם ונשלם שבח לאל בורא עולם.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century; bound together with another volume.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Blue paper with laid lines and chain lines; traces of watermark: V.D.L. (e.g. fol. ); crowned shield? (e.g. fol. 29); lion and knight (fol. 43) with countermark: FCD&S.(?) (e.g. fol. 42); some leaves are without laid lines or chain lines (e.g. fols. 38-40)..
Extent: 92 folios (92+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 163 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Very narrow margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, blue cloth binding.

Spine: 'Meir b. Anshel. Homilies. Judeo-German. II. III. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,000&10,001.'

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 513; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v: inscribed with his name on fol. 92v; date of accession 8 April 1929.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10001 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal (1995): pp. 81-108, esp. pp. 83 and 101.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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