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Or 10004
Title:
Śedeh ha-ʾarets by Abraham Meyuḥas
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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:
329 folios (i+329+iii)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Meyuḥas, Abraham ben Samuel, d 1767
Meyuḥas, Abraham ben Samuel, d 1767
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Or 10004

Śedeh ha-ʾarets by Abraham Meyuḥas

Contents

Homilies on the Torah by Abraham ben Samuel Meyuḥas.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-329v
Author: Meyuḥas, Abraham ben Samuel, -1767 מיוחס, אברהם בן שמואל
Title: שדה הארץ: דרשות על בראשית ושמות
Title: Śedeh ha-arets: derashot ʽal Be-reshit u-Shemot

The first two parts of Śedeh ha-ʾarets containing the homilies on Genesis and Exodus.

See the printed edition of Salonica, 1784 and 1798.

F. 67r, line 1 gives the date 5508, that is 1747/8.

Autograph?

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 184, 191), 'MASAMI? LANGVEDOC' (e.g. f. 170), countermark A.G. (e.g. f. 188).
Extent: 329 folios (i+329+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 166 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Some folios are blank (e.g. ff. 154v, 273v, 319v).

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, slight worm damage.

Some leaves are fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Not uniform layout: number of lines per page varies; some leaves are much smaller size (e.g. ff. 155-157); on some pages virtually no margins have left (e.g. ff. 94r-95v); left margins are sometimes not justified (e.g. f. 69r-71r).

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 318v: calculations.

Binding

BM in-house binding, blue cloth.

Spine: 'Abraham Meyuḥaś. Sedeh ha-Areš. I-II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,004.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 639; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 November 1928.

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

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