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Or 12330

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Or 12330
Title:
Avraham ben Shelomoh al-Azraḳi's responsa
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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:
86 folios (iii+86+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
al-Azraḳi, Avraham ben Shelomoh
אלאזרקי, אברהם בן שלמה
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Or 12330

Avraham ben Shelomoh al-Azraḳi's responsa

Contents

Responsa by Avraham ben Shelomoh al-Azraḳi

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-84r
Author: al-Azraḳi, Avraham ben Shelomoh אלאזרקי, אברהם בן שלמה
Title: שני חיי אברהם
Title: Shene ḥaye Avraham

Autograph(?) responsa by Avraham ben Shelomoh Al-Azraḳi. The author begun the writing in Constantinople, and he arranged (סידרתי אותו) it in Jerusalem in 1831 (f. 1r).

Author's signature (e.g. ff. 3v, 4r, 30r).

F. 10r: a question from David ben Avraham ha-Kohen; ff. 28v and 51-52: additions to the responsa in a different hand; ff. 54v-62r: extracts from a lexicon on halakhic topics; f. 64r: a piece on the death of Moses; ff. 66-67: hespedim.

The author records (f. 1r) that his mother Polah died in 1830 and is buried in the cemetery of the notables of Constantinople near the Temple Mount; her father Abraham Manasseh died in Tiberias, and her mother in Safed. The author's father died in 1823 (f. 1r and elsewhere), and there are a number of drafts of a responsum concerning his wishes as to his burial.

Colophon: והתחלתי אותו בחל בקושט' וסידרתי אותו פה ירושלים עה"ק בתוספות מרובו בשנת בב' כ'ל' י'ש'ר'א'ל' לראות את פני ה' אלהיך כי בחר ה' בציון אוה למושב לו f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; various watermarks:the 'Maid of Dort' form of the Pro Patria watermark(e.g. f. 15, 36), with B&C Blau(?) countermark (e.g. f. 29); small chalice (?) (f. 48); three six-point starts in a crowned shield (f. 50); dove on a circle (similar to Heawood, Watermarks: mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries (Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950), no. 327 dated 1836) (ff. 53-54) ; three hats (unfoliated leaf after f. 79).
Extent: 86 folios (iii+86+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 314 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Traces of earlier Hebrew foliation in ink, not continuous.

Collation

Leaves and bifolios are on guards.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Iron gall ink corrosion in places (e.g. ff. 35-36, 81-82).

Japanese tissue repair in places (e.g. ff. 1-8).

Layout

Columns:2

Various sizes of leaves; text mostly in 2 columns.

Folding lines.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house; quarter-bound.

Spine: 'Responsa Hebrew Brit. Lib. OR. MS. 12330.'

Accompanying Material

Extracts from a commentary to the Pentateuch (first two pericopes only) in a different hand. It quotes Midrahs peliʾah, Pelaḥ ha-rimon, Aspaḳlaryah ha-meʾirah, Binah le-ʿitim. Different paper; ruling in pencil is visible.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1063; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

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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