Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Or 10584

Record Id:
032-003367176
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003367176
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100040648651.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10584
Title:
Igeret Magen Avraham
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-003367176", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 10584: Igeret Magen Avraham" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003367176
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-003367176
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
44 folios (44+xiii)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10584 (digital images currently unavailable)
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1850
End Date:
1913
Date Range:
1850-1913
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abraham Pereṣ
Cardozo, Abraham Miguel, c 1627-1706
Cardozo, Abraham Miguel, c 1627-1706
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10584

Igeret Magen Avraham

Contents

Igeret Magen Avraham.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-45r
Author: Cardozo, Abraham Miguel, -1706 קרדוזו, אברהם מיכאל
Title: אגרת מגן אברהם
Title: Igeret Magen Avraham

A copy of Manchester, JRL, MS Gaster 446.

Title page on f. 1r: אגרת מגן אברהם מארץ המערב.

Previously attributed to Abraham Pereṣ. On the identification of the author see G. Scholem, Shabbetai Tzvi (Hebrew edition, p. 701, n2) and Sabbatai Ṣevi (English edition, p. 815, n334).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 44 folios (44+xiii)
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

4 quires of 14, 16, 16 and 14 leaves (quire iv is entirely blank).

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Verso sides are blank.

Inner margin on recto sides is wide to accommodate notes.

Hand(s)

Hebrew cursive script of the 19th-20th century. Probably copied by Isaac Last (1847-1913).

Binding

Post-1600. Quarter-bound: marble paper covers. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

A loose letter by I[saac] Last in Hebrew with some Yiddish.

History

Origin: 2nd half of the 19th century - early 20th century (not after 1913). ; England (Oxford)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 917; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 April 1930.

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

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10584 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, Shabtai Tsevi: ṿeha-tenuʿah ha-Shabtaʾit bi-yeme ḥayaṿ (Tel Aviv : ʿAm ʿOved, 5717 (1956 or 1957)), p. 701, n2 (Hebrew).
    Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, Sabbatai Sevi: the Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1973 1989), p. 815, n334.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL