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Or 10288

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Or 10288
Title:
Pizmonim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
49 folios (i+49+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1830
End Date:
1830
Date Range:
1830
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
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Or 10288

Pizmonim

Contents

A collection of liturgical compositions by various authors with the names of the tunes appended.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-48r
Author:
Title: פזמונים
Title: Pizmonim

F. 47r: מפתחות הספר - למצוא הפזמונים; f. 48r: מפתחות הספר למצוא אמרי שפר.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Bluish paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 49 folios (i+49+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 189 × 118 mm.
Dimensions (written): 156 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; not in order: f. י, ff. יב-טז, f. יא, ff. יז-כד, ff. כו-ל, f. כה, ff. לא-לה, ff. לז-מא, f. לו, ff. מב-מט, ff. נא-נד, f. נ, ff. נה-נו, ff. נח-נט, f. נז, ff. סא-סב, f. ס, f. סג, f. סה, f. סד, ff. סי-סט, f. עג, ff. ע-עא, f. עד.

Numerous blank recto sides with only the frame drawn, but no text.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Oblong format, text runs perpendicular to spine (in digital surrogate the images are shown in portrait orientation for readibility).

Text is in frame.

Text is written only on the recto side, and verso sides are left blank. Exceptions: ff. 11v, 24v, and 43v.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Sefardi Hebrew cursive and square script of the 19th century.

Ff. 11v, 12r, 24v, and 43v written in square script by a different hand.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 11v, 43v: text added by a different, probably later hand.

Note in Sefardi Hebrew cursive script on f. 49v.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '456 פזמונים'.

History

Origin: 1830

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on f. 1r: "No 456 M. Gaster - written by M. Jacob Hai Almuli originary(!) from Spalato who held a private school in Bucharest & died in Jerusalem about 50 years ago at the age of 78. Sold by his grandson, now shamash of the Spanish&Portug. Congregation in Bucharest Menahem David Almuli. - (also a grand nephew of Rev. Morenu David Parvo ha-mequbal. - - M. G. Bucharest July 902/62"

M. Gaster's note on f. 2r: 'Through Mr Lazarester(?) from the Bucharest Geniza - M. Gaster'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 456; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; 24 Jluy 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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