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Or 10201

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Or 10201
Title:
Poem by Itsiḳ Brisḳ
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
16 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1802
End Date:
1803
Date Range:
1802-1803
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Itsiḳ Brisḳ
בריסק, איציק
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Or 10201

Poem by Itsiḳ Brisḳ

Contents

A poem in honour of Itsiḳ Schiff and his brother-in-law Leizer Hollander.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1r-16v
Author: בריסק, איציק Itsiḳ Brisḳ
Title: ספר החיים: שיר שבח
Title: Sefer ha-ḥayim: shir shevaḥ

Title page (f. 1r): ספר החיים - לכבוד אדוני הה' הרבני החכם הנגיד והקצין כה' איציק שיף פרנס ומנהיג (שי"ח) ולכבוד גיס התורני החכם הקצין הנדיב המפורסם כה' לייזר האללאנדר ולכבוד אחיו הקצין הנגיד המפורסם בה' אברהם - לפרט א'ש'ו'ר'נ'ו' עתה בספר החיים עם תרגום אשכנזי פה המבורג יע"א

Colophon: See title page.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 16 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 133 × 107 mm.
Dimensions (written): 88 × 84 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

An unfoliated blank leaf after f. 1.

Collation

5 quires: itwo (ff. 1-1a), ii-iv4, vthree.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruling is visible.

Inner column: Hebrew text in square script, outer column: Yiddish translation in cursive script.

Wide lower margin.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and cursive script of the early 19th century. Scribe: Itsiḳ Brisḳ.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, turquoise paper binding. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1802-1803 Germany (Hamburg)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription in pencil in English on front pastedown:'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 119; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 September 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

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Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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