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Or 10520
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- Format:
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 10520
- Title:
- Sefer ʿevronot
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 27 folios (i+27+ii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10520 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1744
- End Date:
- 1745
- Date Range:
- 1744-1745
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10520
Sefer ʿevronot
Contents
Calendrical treatise.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-27rTitle: עברונותTitle: ʿEvronotTitle page (f. 1r): ספר עברונת - והוא יורה דרך לגמולי חלב ועתיקי שדים ולנבינים יתן חן ליב... חכמה בחורים וזקנים... לחשוב תקופת ומולדות והיא חכמתכם ובינתכם:
Benjamin Wollff ben Baruch Holander copied it for himself.
Index on ff. 26v-27r.
Colophon: מעותק מהחיבור של הח"ר אליעזר בלין אשכנזי שנדפס כבר ועתה נתחדש ביופי הנייר ואותיות נאות וציורים נאים עם קונטריס בסופו ע"י הבח' כ בנימן וואלף בן כ' ברוך שליט לפרט ולמדת'ם אותם' א'ת בניכ'ם לד'בר בם' לפ"ק f. 1rReferences
About the author see: Carlebach, Eliseva. Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 55-57.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 24-25).Extent: 27 folios (i+27+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 162 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink starting on f. 2r (=f. א).
Ff. 25v, 26r and f. 27vare blank.
Collation
8 quires: i-v4, vi2, vii4, viiithree.
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Several leaves have been torn out at the beginning, before and after front flyleaf (i) (see stubs).
Layout
Columns:1
Section headings in larger, square characters.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi cursive and square script of the 18th century.
Decoration
Decorated title page (f. 1r).
Numerous charts, diagrams (e.g. ff. 1v, 4r, 6r, 8v-10r).
Hand diagram (f. 15r).
Volvelles on ff. 15v, 18r and 18v.
Additions:Front flyleaf (i)r: calendar for the year 5507 (1746/1747), added in pencil.
Front pastedown: and front flyleaf (i)v: calculations, pen trials, scribbles.
Small round paper slip is glued onto f. 22v.
Binding
Post-1600, decorated paper, green.
Accompanying Material
Loose bifolios of the printed edition of Melits Yosher (Amsterdam, 1773) placed between ff. 7-8 (pages 42r, 42v, 45r, 45v) and 8-9 (pages 43r, 43v, 44r, 44v).
History
Origin: 1744-1745 Germany (Hamburg)Provenance and Acquisition
Patron: זה הספר עברנת שייך להבחור חשוב כמר בנימן... ... בן וואלף כמר ברוך האלנדר שליט
Ownership inscription(?) on front pastedown: 'Bernd', 'Benianen', 'dieses Buch geh[ö]rt [Wulff] Benianen'.
Note on front flyleaf (i)v: 'F. Bremer'.
Ownership inscription(?) on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Wollff Barus Beniamen', 'Bernnd'.
Ownership inscriptions in Hebrew and in Latin script on back pastedown: זה הספר שייך להבחור ... , '... Wolff B...
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 985; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 September 1927.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.Availability
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