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Or 4677

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032-003374518
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Or 4677
Title:
Divre ḥakhamim by Yosef Shelomoh al-Sa'igh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
251 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4677 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
M. Regensburger
Yosef ben Shelomoh al-Sa'igh
al-Sa'igh, Yosef ben Shelomoh
אלסעיג, יוסף בן שלמה
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Or 4677

Divre ḥakhamim by Yosef Shelomoh al-Sa'igh

Contents

Summary of Contents: Sefer divre ḥakhamim, a collection of 416 short Talmudic and Midrashic expositions and comments by different writers, compiled by Yosef ben Shelomoh al-Sa'igh, who himself is the author of several of the pieces.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-251v
Title: Sefer divre ḥakhamim
Title: ספר דברי חכמים
Author: al-Sa'igh, Yosef ben Shelomoh אלסעיג, יוסף בן שלמה

Folio 3r-6r give a numbered table of the contents of the manuscript, 416 in number.

The name of the compiler frequently occurs at the end of the pieces under the designation המעתיק.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 251 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

251 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10-12 leaves each (irregular).

Condition

Several folios slightly mutilated.

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Visible hard-point ruling.

Various handwritings, approximately 10 or 12.

Initial word of most of the section is written in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Some additional comments are given in the outer margins.

Watermarks of a scale inscribed in a circle, similar to Briquet no. 2584, [Briquet_1968] 188, vol. 1.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive and semi-cursive scripts of the 17th century. Yosef ben Shelomoh al-Sa'igh: inscribed throughout the manuscript, e.g. folio f. 7r .

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Dibhre Hakhamim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4677'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Ottoman Empire

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Regensburger: purchased from him by the British Museum on 28 April 1893: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4677 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 393.

Bibliography

    [Briquet_1968] Charles Moïse BRIQUET. 'Les Filigranes. Dictionnaire Historique Des Marques Du Papier Des Leur Apparition Vers 1282 Jusqu’en 1600. A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material Contributed by a Number of Scholars. Edited by Allan Stevenson. (The New Briquet. Jubilee Edition.).'Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL