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Or 10036

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Or 10036
Title:
Bet Zevul by Elazar Crescas
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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:
87 folios (i+87+i)
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Crescas, Elazar ben Joshua
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
קרשקש, אלעזר בן יהושע
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Or 10036

Bet Zevul by Elazar Crescas

Contents

An index of passages in the Pentateuch found in the Talmud, midrash and other early rabbinic literature.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-87v
Author: Crescas, Elazar ben Joshua קרשקש, אלעזר בן יהושע
Title: בית זבול: מפתח פסוקי התורה המובאים בתלמוד ובמדרשים
Title: Bet Zevul: mafteaḥ pesuḳe ha-Torah ha-muvaʾim ba-Talmud uva-midrashim

Incomplete at the beginning.

Following the order of the verses in the Torah, until Parashat Shoftim.

M. Gaster identifies the manuscript with Bet Zevul by Eleazar ben Joshua Bonfils Crescas, of which several copies and fragments are noted in the E.N. Adler catalogue (Catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts in the collection of Elkan Nathan Adler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921).

See also, [BL] Or 10703 and [BL] Or 10566.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Two kinds of paper: ff. 1-55: shiny with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 8, 19, 36), shamrock with the monogramme NZ(?)(e.g. ff. 18, 27); ff. 56-87: matte with laid lines and chain lines; agnus dei watermark with shamrock countermark(e.g. 58, 61, 75 ).
Extent: 87 folios (i+87+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, which jumps from f. 69 to f. 80, but the text is continuous.

Collation

11 quires: i6, ii10, iii6, iv10, v6, vi10, vii6, viii10, ix6, x10, xi6+1.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Worm damage, usage stains.

Small torn hole on f. 87.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Running title.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600.Dark blue cloth binding.

Spine: 'Index of Pentateuchal Quotations. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 10,0036.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 665; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10036 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    M. Gaster, 'Eliezer Crescas and His Beth Zebul: the Bible References in Talmud and Midrash', Hebrew Union College Annual 6 (1929): pp. 277-295 (esp. p. 280).

Funding of Cataloguing

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