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Or 10084

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Or 10084
Title:
Novellae on the Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
199 folios (ii+199+ii)
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Tsahal, Yaʿaḳoṿ ibn
צהל, יעקב אבן
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Or 10084

Novellae on the Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim)

Contents

Ḥidushim on the Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim) by Yaʿaḳoṿ ibn Tsahal.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 199 folios (ii+199+ii)

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Novellae on Shulḥān ʿārūkh, ōraḥ ḥayyīm. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,084.'

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 457: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 199v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

Liturgical compilation and poems

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8v
Author:
Title: Liturgical compilation and notes

Fols. 1r-7v include: compilations in another hand, among which are a prayer book according to the rite of Sana’a (fol. 1r), a release from witchcraft (fol. 3r), and various prayers.

Fol. 7r: a description of two manuscripts. The first is the book Elmarshad Elkafi (אלמרשד אלכאפי) written by Tanhum Yerushalmi. The second is a Bible written by Shelomoh ben Mosheh for Yehoshu’a Ben Zarhiya (MS Haverford College, f. 20067).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Greyish paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: six-pointed star(s) in a crowned shield (e.g. fol. 6).
Extent: 10 (fols. 1-8 and an unfoliated blank leaf after fol. 7 and fol. 8)
Dimensions (leaf): 157 × 107 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains.

Squashed fly on fol. 5v.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

No ruling.

Hand(s)

Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 19th century ;

Provenance

II

Contents

Ḥidushim on the Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim) by Yaʿaḳoṿ ibn Tsahal.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 9r-199v
Author: Tsahal, Yaʿaḳoṿ ibn צהל, יעקב אבן
Title: חבור על שלחן ערוך (אורח חיים)
Title: Ḥibur ʿal Shulḥan ʿarukh (Oraḥ ḥayim)

With supplements in the margins, and with notes at the head of the manuscript and in the margins, written by a later hand.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a lion (e.g. fol. 19, 85).
Extent: 199 folios (ii+199+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 1200 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Numerous blank pages, e.g. fols. 15r, 49v, 101v.

Several unfoliated blank pages, e.g. after fols. 13, 70, 100, 134.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Smudged ink, water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Slight variation in the size of the leaves.

Numerous marginal notes by various hands, some are perpendicular to the spine.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Novellae on Shulḥān ʿārūkh, ōraḥ ḥayyīm. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,084.'

History

Origin: 19th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 457: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 199v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

Additional Information

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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