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Or 10130

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Or 10130
Title:
Prayers and liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
21 folios (21+vi)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10130

Prayers and liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of prayers and liturgical poems.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-21v
Author:
Title: תפלות ופיוטים
Title: Tefilot u-fiyuṭim

Ḳabalat Shabbat prayer which includes the piyut ואל עולם נתנה שיר by Mordekhay Dato (fols. 1r-4v; Ps. 29 (fol. 5r); Ps. 23 (fol. 5v); the piyut לכה דודי by Shelomoh Elkabetz (fols. 6r-7r). Piyutim for the Ne’ilah prayer: אל נורא עלילה by Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra (fol. 7r-8r) and המבדיל בין קודש לחול..יצוה ה’ חסדו by Yitsḥaḳ (fols. 8v-9r); Exodus 13:1-13:16 to be recited after laying tefilin (fols. 9r-10r); Psalms 27, to recite in the first day of month Elul until Shemini Atseret. An excerpt from Pitum ha-Ketoret. Fols. 11r-20r: order of the Omer, followed by the piyut ידיד נפש by Elʿazar Azikri.

Instructions in Italian in Latin script at the beginning of the sections.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, no laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 21 folios (21+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 133 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 28-1 leaves.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling in pencil.

Number of written lines varies.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script and Italian (Latin) cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

The figure of a man is etched into the paper on back flyleaf (vi)v.

Binding

Marble paper covers, textile spine. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

The number '318' is a duplicate numbering. The real Gaster 318 is in the JRL, Manchester. Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. ?: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 21v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 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_10130 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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