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Or 12298
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- Or 12298
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- Milon la-ḥaruzim and other documents
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 123 folios (iii+123+iv)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Italian - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1825
- Date Range:
- 1775-1825
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 12298
Milon la-ḥaruzim and other documents
Contents
A notebook containing a rhyming dictionary, letters and other documents.
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian
ff. 1r-95vTitle: מלון לחרוזיםTitle: Milon la-ḥaruzimA Hebrew rhyming dictionary, incomplete.
The major part of this composition is written solely on recto of the leaf, each rhyme has a page of its own.
Brief prayers (fol. 28v), poetic phrases and opening lines for letters (fol. 58v) some of them are by Matityah Zakut Levi, Mosheh Zakut Levi in the year 5546 (in 1785/6).
Colophon: "העתק כתב חרות על עמודי כסף של סה"ק שלי ... שנת התקמ"ו" f. 95vFiliation: Cf. [BL] Or 12311.ff. 95v-98rTitle: LettersAutograph letters and their copies:
letters from the year 5556 (from 1795/6) regarding Rabbi Shelomoh Zalman fromPolandwho was a proofreader of Torah scrolls (fols. 95v, 97r-97v). The letters are from Mosheh Zakut in Alessandria;
copies of letters by Yishaʿayah ben Yosef Hay Carpi, by Yishmaʾel Kohen in Modena, by Refa’el Natan ben Yitsḥaḳ Ashkenazi in Triesta, by Mosheh ben Yaʿaḳov Hay Hefetz in Gorizia, and by Shelomoh Daṿid Mehazkenim in Lugo.
Various letters from Mosheh Zakut from the years 5568-5580 (the years 1807-1820) (fols. 96r, 98r).
ff. 100r-122vTitle: Various documentsA list of printed books, manuscripts, and a few books in foreign languages sorted according to the shelves on which they are located (fols. 108r-112r, 121r), the owner might be Asher ben Zion Kohen Vitali ben Avraham Ya’uda whose signature appears on fol. 109v.
Lists in Italian (fol. 123v).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the late 18th century - early 19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: sun? (e.g. fol. 21) and countermark: F.R. (?) (e.g. fol. 16); identical with watermark in [BL] Or 12311.Extent: 123 folios (iii+123+iv)Dimensions (leaf): 249 × 189 mm.Dimensions (written): × mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Numerous blank pages and unfoliated blank leaves.
Collation
6 quires (all on guards): i-ii24, iii22, iv24, v24, vi24+1; fols. 106-123 on guards.
No catchwords.
Condition
Usage stains.
Some leaves are laminated.
Layout
Columns:1
Hand(s)
Italian Hebrew cursive script and Italian script of the 18th-19th century.
Decoration
Additions:Fol. 115v: list and calculations in Italian and Hebrew; fol. 123v: scribbles, pen trials in Latin and Hebrew characters.
Binding
BL in-house.
Spine: 'Ryming Dictionary Letters Hebrew British Library Oriental MS. 12298.'
Accompanying Material
Fol. 2 is a fragment of a liturgical text written in large square script.
History
Origin: 1775-1825 Last quarter of the 18th century - 1st quarter of the 19th century. ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 654; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12298 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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