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Or 10083

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Or 10083
Title:
Novellae and responsa by Bentsiyon ben Shabetai
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
65 folios (iii+65+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10083 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Bentsiyon ben Shabetai
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
בנציון בן שבתי
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Or 10083

Novellae and responsa by Bentsiyon ben Shabetai

Contents

Novellae and responsa by Bentsiyon ben Shabetai

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-53r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author: Bentsiyon ben Shabetai בנציון בן שבתי
Title: חדושים
Title: Ḥidushim

Halakhic novellae, mainly on Jacob ben Asher's Arbaʾah ṭurim and Maimonides' Mishneh torah.

The first novella is dated 1 Ṭevet 5561 (=1800) (fol. 2r).

Autograph.

ff. 54r-65r
Author: Bentsiyon ben Shabetai בנציון בן שבתי
Title: Sheʼelot u-teshuvot
Title: שאלות ותשובות

On the bottom of fol. 56v: הצעיר בן ציון בכ"ר שבתי ס"ט

Autograph.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: tre cappelli (e.g. fols. 25, 65) with the monogramme G.M. (?) (.e.g. fols. 6, 64).
Extent: 65 folios (iii+65+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 154 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Several unfoliated blank pages, e.g. after fols. 1, 33,36, 39, 44, 62.

Several blank pages, e.g. fols. 39v, 64r.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, slight water damage.

Leaves are damaged, some are patched, some are lined with silk gauze.

Smudged ink (e.g. fols. 26r-29v

Layout

Columns:1

Very narrow margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Small black rectangular stamp on fol. 1r (with an three-letter initial in Gothic characters?)

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Novellae and Responsa Ben-Ṣiyyōn ben Shabbethai. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,083.'

History

Origin: 19th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 397: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 65v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession 16 March 1928.

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_10083 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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