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Or 10479

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Or 10479
Title:
Halikhot olam by Jeshua ben Joseph ha-Levi
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
69 folios
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1702
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1702
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1702
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jeshua ben Joseph, fl 15th century
Jeshua ben Joseph, fl 15th century
Rafaʾel ben Shelomoh Porṭo
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Or 10479

Halikhot olam by Jeshua ben Joseph ha-Levi

Contents

A methodology of the Talmud.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-69v
Author: Jeshua ben Joseph, ha-Levi, active 15th century ישועה בן יוסף, הלוי
Title: הליכות עולם
Title: Halikhot ʿolam

Copied from the Venice printed edition of 1544/5, with the concluding words of the printers (Ṿinograd Venice 237).

Colophon: "אני רפאל בלא"א כמ"ר שלמה פורטו יצ"ו העתקתי אחר שהיה בדפוס וסימתי ... כא לחדש אדר שנת תס"ב ליצירה" f. 69v .

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: anchor in circle with a five-pointed star on top (ff. 5 and 8).
Extent: 69 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains.

Ff. 1, 67, 68 and 69 have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Section headings are often with larger characters.

The colophon at the end is written in very large characters.

Very narrow margins.

Pricking and ruling are visible in places.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century. Scribe: Rafaʾel ben Shelomoh Porṭo.

Binding

Post-1600. Cloth spine, marble paper covers.

Spine: 'דרכי התלמוד 660'.

History

Origin: 1702

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 660; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession.

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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