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Or 10176

Record Id:
032-003379923
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Or 10176
Title:
Prayer for the prevention of plague
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
9 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10176 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10176

Prayer for the prevention of plague

Contents

Prayer for the prevention of plague.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-9r
Title: תפלה למניעת מגפה
Title: Tefilah li-meniʿat magefah
Incipit: ישב בסתר עליון בצל

Also including hymns from Psalms and Pitum ha-Ketoret.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 9 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 106 × 63 mm.
Dimensions (written): 78 × 50 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains.

Outer edges of the first two folios are damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

F. 9v: only 4 written lines, in very large characters.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 17th-18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Leather binding.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1257; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; 10 January 1932.

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10176 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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