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Or 12287

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Or 12287
Title:
ʻEt ha-zamir by Meshorer Avshalom
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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:
8 folios (i+8+)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Avshalom, Meshorer
Birkhiyah Mehazkenim
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Gavriʾel ben Yaʿaḳov Trieste
Rivka
אבשלום, משורר
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Or 12287

ʻEt ha-zamir by Meshorer Avshalom

Contents

A poem celebrating the marriage of Berechiah dal Vecchio to a member of the Trieste family.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8r
Author: Avshalom, Meshorer אבשלום, משורר
Title: עת הזמיר
Title: ʿEt ha-zamir

Title page on f. 1r: עת הזמיר על חתונת מהזקנים=טריאסטי הזכרת חסד הנדיבים המפוארים אנשי בית גבריאל בן המנוח יעקב טריאסטי קרבן חוכה מאת הצעיר אב"שלום אל הבחור המפואר מעטה תהלה כבוד גבריאל ישראל יוסף חיים טריאסטי הי"ו אחי אם הכלה.

The name of the groom: Birkhiyah Mehazkenim (f. 8r), the name of the bride: Rivka (f. 4r) the daughter of Gavriʾel ben Yaʿaḳov Trieste (on the title page), the poem was written for Gavri’el Yisraʾel Yosef Ḥayim Trieste who is the brother of the bride’s mother.

Filiation: Another copy of this poem is to be found in MS London-Montefiore 380.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 8 folios (i+8+)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 188 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 8 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Text is only on the recto side of the leaves.

Hand(s)

Italo-Ashkenazi Hebrew square script

Binding

Post-1600. White cloth binding. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 452; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 July 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

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