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Or 10105

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Or 10105
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
68 folios (i+68+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
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Or 10105

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of various liturgical and legal texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-49v
Author: גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה אבן Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century
Title: אזהרות לרשב"ג
Title: Azharot le-Rashbag

With the commentary of the Bakh (???)

ff. 50r-51v
Author:
Title: אגרת בקשה לעזרה
Title: Igeret baḳashah le-ʿezrah

A letter written by the Ashkenazi community in Saloniki regarding a woman, her son and her two daughters, from Russia.

No signatures at the end.

The letter is addressed to the 'Community of Israel' (קהלות ישראל יע"א בכל מקום שהם ובפרט בעיר ואם קוסטנדינא (f. 51v, line 1-2).

ff. 52r-68v
Author:
Title: שטרות
Title: Sheṭarot

Contains templates for sheṭarot and divorce letters.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: anchor in a circle with a star on top (e.g. ff. 3, 8, 10, 31, 42).
Extent: 68 folios (i+68+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 147 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Ff. 55 and 56 are upside down.

Ink stains, usages stains.

Some leaves have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Byzantine) Hebrew cursive and semi-cursive scripts of the 15th-16th century.

Ff. 1r-53v: semi-cursive script, small, clear handwriting, well-structured layout, justified right margin.

Ff. 54r-68v: mostly cursive scripts, most probably by several hands, very narrow margins.

Decoration

Additions:

Arabic notes on ff. 1v, 18v, 19v, 47v, 57r (upside down), 68v.

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Śēpher Azhar'oth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 10,105.'.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Turkey(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions: אשר חנניאל... (f. 1r); 'Iachob Danon' "יעקב דנון" (ff. 1v: Hebrew, 48r: Latin); 'Iacob baruch haim amram elia mazal job...' (f. 44r); עמנואל דנון (f. 61v); erased ownership inscription on f. 49v: סה הספר של הבחור ....

Birth record on f. 1r: יט לחדש ניסן משנת השמ"ב ליצירה ... נולד בני אברהם יצ"ו סלטן מראד ומלתי אותו

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 58; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 July 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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