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Or 4116

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Or 4116
Title:
Sefer Meḳor ḥayim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
44 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4116 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1845
End Date:
1845
Date Range:
1845
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
B. Steinhart
Sāliḥ, Yaḥyā ben Jacob, 1804-1859
Sāliḥ, Yaḥyā ben Jacob, 1804-1859
Yaḥya ben Jacob Saliḥ
Ḥayim ibn Yosef Ḳoraḥ
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Or 4116

Sefer Meḳor ḥayim

Contents

Summary of Contents: Sefer Meḳor ḥayim, on the laws of sheḥitah and ṭerefah, compiled by Yaḥya ben Jacob Saliḥ.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-44v
Title: Sefer Meḳor ḥayim
Title: ספר מקור חיים
Author: Saliḥ, Yaḥya ben Jacob צאלח, יחיא בן יעקב

The date is given at the end of some verses on folio 1v as [5]605 (1845).

Filiation: Cf. a copy of the same work: [Oxford_BOD] MS. Oppenheim Add. 8° 32, [Neubauer_1994] 2370.

f. 1r Full border in black and red.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 44 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Initial words in each section is given in larger characters and ornamented in red ink.

Running titles, ornamented in red ink.

Horizontal catchwords on every page.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Yahya Salih. Mekor Chayyim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4116.'

History

Origin: 1845 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 44r: a certificate of proficiency in ritual slaughter granted to Salam ibn Yaḥya, dated 2174 (1863).

Ḥayim ibn Yosef Ḳoraḥ: inscribed, folio 1v.

1890-05-10

B. Steinhart: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 May 1890: inscribed (folio [45v]).

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_4116 (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. 563.

Bibliography

    [Oxford_BOD] 'Oxford, Bodleian Library', n.d.
    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.

Funding of Cataloguing

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