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Or 9053

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Or 9053
Title:
Mikhtam ʿoni ha-yamin by Abel Elias Abel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
58 folios (ii+58+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9053 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
German
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1843
End Date:
1843
Date Range:
1843
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abel Elias Abel
Chaim Bloch
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9053

Mikhtam ʿoni ha-yamin by Abel Elias Abel

Contents

A work for the propagation of Christianity among the Jews.

Language(s): German, Hebrew

ff. 1r-58v
Author: Abel Elias Abel
Title: מכתם עני הימין
Title: Mikhtam ʿoni ha-yamin

Ff. 7r-15v: about the Torah, ff. 15v-18r: about the 'Evangelium'.

Autograph.

Place names mentioned: Petersburg (f. 3r); Sussex, London (f. 51v).

Colophon: אליה בן אהרון הכהן הקורא לב אבות על בנים וגם לב בנים על אבותם- עד - יוחנן בן אהרון הכהן הגדול הקורא: פן אבא והכתי את הארץ חרם - עד וליתר תוקף ועוז באתי בעצמי על החתום פה עיר שתאלפה דיתנא על נהר שסאלפע היום יום כ"ד כסליו התרד ... אבחיל העפ.. אבעל בן אליה הכהן נולד ... קומין במדינה פוממץ גר בעיר ...יעוואל ... ריגענוואלדע ולעת ער... פה Stolp 17 Dbr 1843. Abel Elias Abel f. 58v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 58 folios (ii+58+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 188 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190-200 × 153-158 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.

Parallel pagination in ink by the scribe.

Ff. 1v, 2v and 53v are blank.

Collation

Νo catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

A few marginal notes by the author/scribe himself.

Ff. 51v-52r: text is in frame.

Hand(s)

Latin (German) cursive script and Hebrew square script. Scribe: Abel Elias Abel.

Decoration

Golden letters and a golden crown (f. 2r).

A drawing of a menorah in a separate piece of paper, which was then glued onto f. 2r.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding. Label from the original binding(?) stuck on front flyleaf (ii)r.

Title on spine: 'A. E. Abel. Mikhtam ʿĀnī Hayyāmīn. German & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9053.'

History

Origin: 1843 Germany (Stolp/Słupsk)?

Provenance and Acquisition

Abel Elias Abel's round paper seal on ff. 1r and 58v; depicting a Magen David and a menorah; inscription: B. A. Kohen L.E.K. SCH. W. - Abel Elias Abel. Jeschua. A. Moscheh.A. B.U.SCH.K.M.L.W. With white and black silk threads (f. 58v).

Acquistion note on front flyleaf (i)r: '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_9053 (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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