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Or 9056

Record Id:
032-003380242
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Or 9056
Title:
Gevurat Shimshon by Eliyahu ben Yehudah Leib Ostrovsky
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
59 folios (i+59+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1839
End Date:
1839
Date Range:
1839
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Chaim Bloch
Ostrovsky (Levinson), Eliyahu ben Yehudah Leib, of Slutzk
לוינזן, אליהו בן יהודה ליב
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Or 9056

Gevurat Shimshon by Eliyahu ben Yehudah Leib Ostrovsky

Contents

A drama on the life of Samson.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-59r
Author: Ostrovsky (Levinson), Eliyahu ben Yehudah Leib, of Slutzk לוינזן, אליהו בן יהודה ליב
Title: גבורת שמשון: מחזה
Title:

Title page on f. 1r: גבורת שמשון - חלק ראשון מוהר"ר אליהו בן יהודא ליב אסטראווסקעה מק"ק סלוצק - Елейко Лейбовичу / Астровшке Случкого /Мъщанйчъ....

Introduction on ff. 4r-5v.

Autograph.

In two other manuscripts of the same work (Jerusalem, NLI, Ms. Heb. 73=8 and Jerusalem, NLI, Ms. Heb. 25=8), the author is named אליהו בן יהודה ליב לווין ס’ זעהן.

Colophon: לפרט ג'ב'ו'ר'ת ש'מ'שון' f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 59 folios (i+59+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 113 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in ink, by the scribe.

Ff. 1v, and 31v are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Some notes in pencil (e.g. ff. 11v, 13r, 21r, 21v).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Full decorated border around title page (f. 1r).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, black cloth binding.

Title on spine: 'J. H. Ostrovsky. Gebūrath Shimshōn. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9056.'

History

Origin: 1839 Belorus (Slutsk)?

Provenance and Acquisition

Oval-shaped dry stamp on f. 8v, upside down: the monogramme 'L. H.' with a crown on top, and surrounded by a wreath.

Acquistion note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Chaim Bloch. 26 May 1922.'; date of accession 29 May 1922.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9056 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), vol. IV. p. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

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