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Or 10488

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Or 10488
Title:
Bate ha-shir by Eliahu Civitanova
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
8 folios (8+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1789
End Date:
1789
Date Range:
1789
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Civitanova, Eliahu
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
ציויטה נובא, אליהו
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Or 10488

Bate ha-shir by Eliahu Civitanova

Contents

Poems.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8r
Author: ציויטה נובא, אליהו Civitanova, Eliahu
Title: בתי השיר
Title: Bate ha-shir

Rhymes to honour the renovation of the synagogue of Ancona by Ḥayim Daṿid Rafaʾel, Pinḥas Shelomoh Ḥayim, and Yitsḥaḳ Shelomoh Eliyah.

Autograph.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 8 folios (8+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 137 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 117 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 8 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

The fragment of folio 1 is mounted on a blue leaf (originally flyleaf).

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 8 10

Written lines: 8 10

Text is surrounded by red frame throughout.

Verso sides are left blank.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 18th century, in black and red ink. Written by Eliahu Civitanova.

Binding

Post-1600; marble paper covers. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1789 Italy (Ancona?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 539; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession .

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10488 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Salah, Asher, Le république des lettres: rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Leiden: Brill, 2007), p. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL