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Or 11111

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Or 11111
Title:
Menaḥem Egozi's Ginat egoz
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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:
61 folios (i+61+i)
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Egozi, Menaḥem, fl 16th century
Egozi, Menaḥem, fl 16th century
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Or 11111

Menaḥem Egozi's Ginat egoz

Contents

A collection of religious poems (diwan) by Menaḥem Egozi.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-59v
Author: Egozi, Menaḥem, active 16th century אגוזי, מנחם
Title: גנת אגוז: אוסף שיריו
Title: Ginat egoz: osef shiraṿ

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (f. 5), and the countermark: two letters and a shamrock in between (e.g. f. 6).
Extent: 61 folios (i+61+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160/165 × 95/100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink shows that the beginning of the codex is incomplete (f. 3 = f. יג).

Collation

8 quires: i8+2, ii-iii8, iv8-1, v6, vi-vii8, viii6.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

First 4 folios are patched.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Text mostly in 2 columns.

Marginal notes, sometimes running perpendicular to the main text.

Section headings are often in larger, square characters.

Ruling is visible; pricking is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Carmina figurata (e.g. ff. 6v, 9r, 20r).

Additions:

Ff. 1v, 2r, and 60v-61r: notes by a later hand in ink and pencil in Hebrew; dated 5538-5655 (1777/8-1894/5) (see f. 60v).

Binding

BM in-house; half-bound.

Spine: 'Menahem Egozi. Ginnath Egoz. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,111.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Stamp: 'Nissim s. Sevillia. Hazan ... Constantinople' (f. 15r).

Bought of Luzac & Co. 8 June 1929. From Sotheby's Sale of 23 May 1929: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v. Date of accession 22 July 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Margoliouth, G.:Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1899-1935, 4 vols), vol. IV, p. 160.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11111 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    .בניהו, מאיר בן יצחק נסים, יוסף בחירי : מרן רבי יוסף קארו: הוויכוחים שעברו בינו לבין המבי"ט, בתי המדרש, תלמידיו, בני משפחתו, חיבוריו, שירה, קינה ואיגרות (ירושלים: יד הרב נסים, תשנ"א), עמ’ תקצד-תקצה

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