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Or 10104 ff 137-277v

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Or 10104 ff 137-277v
Title:
Maḥzor le-Moʿadim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
141 folios (ff. 137-277) (ii+141+ii)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1737
End Date:
1737
Date Range:
1737
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
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Or 10104 ff 137-277v

Maḥzor le-Moʿadim

Contents

Festival prayer book, volume 2.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 137r-277v
Author:
Title: מחזור למועדים
Title: Maḥzor la-Moʿadim

Originally a larger manuscript containing 277 folios. Currently bound in two volumes: [BL] Or 10104 ff 1-136 and [BL] Or 10104 ff 137-277.

According to the title and colophon in volume 1 (f. 10r), it is the second part of the Seder of the three festivals and of the high holidays, arranged according to Isaac Luria’s (ha-Ari's) mystical intentions (kaṿanot).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 141 folios (ff. 137-277) (ii+141+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 169 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with [BL] Or 10104 ff 1-136.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink (by the scribe?); f. 137 = f. קלט.

Ff. 164v, 171v, 231v, 232r, 234r, 234v, 276v, 277v are blank.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Serious iron gall ink corrosion; corrosion caused numerous holes, parts are missing (e.g. f. 240).

The entire volume is laminated.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of lines per page varies.

Justified left margin.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on the spine: 'Tephillōth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 10,104. Folios 137-277.'

History

Origin: 1737

Provenance and Acquisition

Volume 1, f. 1r: comment written in in 1792/3 (AM 5543) in Egypt, which mentions the gabai (manager of a synagogue) Hayim Yosef, and the Rabbis Shabtai and Refaʾel.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 31; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 13 August 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_10104_ff_137-277v (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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