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Or 10348

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Or 10348
Title:
Totsot ḥayim by Ḥayim Bokhner
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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:
28 folios (i+28+i)
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Languages:
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Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Bokhner, Ḥayim, 1609?-1684,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118979577,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/58974931
Bokhner, Ḥayim, 1609?-1684,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118979577,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/58974931
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Levita, Elijah, c 1469-1549
Levita, Elijah, c 1469-1549
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Or 10348

Totsot ḥayim by Ḥayim Bokhner

Contents

Abrigdement of Elijah Levita's Hebrew grammar by Ḥayim Bokhner, with Yiddish glosses.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1r-28v
Author: Levita, Elijah, 1468 or 1469-1549 אליהו בן אשר, הלוי, אשכנזי
Author: Bokhner, Ḥayim, approximately 1609-1684 בוכנר, חיים בן בנימין זאב
Title: תוצאות חיים
Title: Totsʾot ḥayim

This abridgement and translation by Ḥayim Bokhner of Cracow was published in Hamburg in 1710.

F. 28v: "ותהי הגמרתו ביום א’ כ"ח סיון [...?] לפק". Year in the note is hardly legible.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark.
Extent: 28 folios (i+28+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 137 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation; f. 1 = f. , which shows that 1 leaf is missing from the beginning.

Collation

Side-stitched.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Chapter number on the top of each page.

Left margin is not even.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, blue binding.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: 'תוצאות חיים 107'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 109; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 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_10348 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal (1995): pp. 81-108, esp. p. 89.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL