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Or 10058

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032-003370268
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Or 10058
Title:
A common-place book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
35 folios (ii+35+iv)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1763
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1763-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10058

A common-place book

Contents

A collection of novellae on the Pentateuch, on the Talmud, responsa, gematria, etc.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-35v
Author:
Title: חדושים על התורה, התלמוד; תשובות, גימטריאות ועוד
Title: Ḥidushim ʿal ha-Torah, ha-Talmud; teshuvot, gimaṭriʾot ṿe-ʿod

A common-place book containing notes mainly halakhical on Bible, Talmud, midrash, the halakhic works of Maimonides, etc.

Compiled by a German rabbi in the 18th century.

F. 21r: the compiler deals with a question put to him by the Sefardim when he was in London, as to the varying practices prevailing amongst the Ashkenazim and Sefardim with regard to blowing the shofar.

Some of the novellae are apparently by Jonathan Eybeschuetz (f. 5v).

There are referenses to David Frankel, the Chief Rabbi at Berlin (f. 10r), and to Loeb Hamburg (ff. 10r, 16v). Other names mentioned are Jacob Hamburger, Benjamin Frankel and Joseph Levi (all on f. 12r) and Aaron Emmerich (f. 18r).

Dates are given on ff. 10r and 13r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a crowned shield (e.g. ff. 4, 8).
Extent: 35 folios (ii+35+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 197 × 156 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

According to the parallel Hebrew foliation f. 1 and the three blank pages after it might have originally been at the end of the manuscript. F. 1 = f. 50 in the Hebrew foliation; f. 2-33 = ff. 20-49 in the Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Indeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Narrow margins.

Vertical lines of the ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 35: two small fragments are inserted into the leaf; one with Hebrew, one with Yiddish notes.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Notes on Halakhah &c. Brit. Mus. OR. 10,058'

History

Origin: 1763-1799 2nd half of the 18th century (not before 1763) Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 140; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (iv)v; date of accession 21 September 1927.

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_10058 (digital images currently unavailable)

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