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Or 10185

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032-003377650
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Or 10185
Title:
Seder Sefirat ha-ʿOmer
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
52 folios (iii+52+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1806
End Date:
1807
Date Range:
1806-1807
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10185

Seder Sefirat ha-ʿOmer

Contents

Book for the counting of the ʿOmer, for the year 5567 (1807).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-51v
Author:
Title: סדר ספירת העמר
Title: Seder Sefirat ha-ʿOmer

Title on title page (f.1r): "סדר ספירת העומר שנ’ התקס"ז".

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 52 folios (iii+52+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 79 × 67 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

27 quires of 2 folios. The first quire includes front flyleaf (iii).

Condition

A few usage stains, collation is a bit cracked.

Layout

Columns:1

Hair and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

From ff. 4v-5r, every second opening is blank.

From f. 4v: text in 4 lines, in one column.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Decorated title page (f. 1r).

Additions:

F. 52r: a prayer to be recited after the counting of the Omer: תפילה לאחר הספירה. Written in cursive Italian Hebrew script.

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather binding, golden-tooled, with printed paper pastedowns. and pull-off green leather box, blind-tooled. (Images of the box are called back flyleaves (iii)-(v) in the image viewer). Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on case: 'סדר ספירת העומר קלף 724'.

History

Origin: 1806-1807 Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 724; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 29 November 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10185 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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