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Or 10107

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032-003381896
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Or 10107
Title:
Sefer melitsot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
126 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10107 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1830
End Date:
1830
Date Range:
1830
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10107

Sefer melitsot

Contents

Summary of Contents: A miscellaneous compilation comprising model forms of address, formularies, riddles, poems, letters, panegyrics, and a dictionary of rhymes.

Language(s): Hebrew, Ladino

ff. 1r-126v
Title: ספר מליצות
Title: Sefer melitsot

Compiled by Yehudah Avraham ben Rafaʾel Ḳopino.

Title page (f. 1r): את זו סדרתי והעתקתי ... נפשי לילמוד ולדבר מלין טוב... בזאת מה שמצאתי רוב בפרקים ישנים מן כם מה ששמעתי וראיתי ולימדתי(!) מאת אדוני אבי ... השלם והכולל כמור"ר רפאל אהרן קופינו זלה"ה הני דברים קודשים כתבתי אותם לזכרן טוב לישראל ... בשליש הראשון מח סיון משנת ... התק"ץ ליצירה ושלום.

Some in Ladino.

Colophon: טרחתי וכתבתי אני הצעיר יאודה אברהם קופינו f. 1r
ff. 2r-28r
Title: הלצות
ff. 28r-30r
Title: מליצות
f. 30r
Title: חתימות
ff. 30r-32r
Title: כתבות
Explicit: תם ונשלם מליצה השייך על גב הכתב - בלשון רבים ובלשון יחיד הכתב והמכתב f. 32r
ff. 32r-34r
Title: חידות
ff. 34r-35v
Title: שירים
ff. 35v-36r
Title: סגולות
ff. 36r-38r
Title: חידות
f. 38r
Title: מליצות לדרוש
ff. 39r-41v
Title: טופסים
ff. 42r-74v
Title: אגרות

F. 43v: letter sent by Bney Mosheh (sons of Moses) to the Rabbis of Jerusalem

Ff. 44r-46r: A letter from the Jerusalem Kolel addressed for the emissary Shelomoh Ha-Kohen, in the year 5576 (in 1815/6).

ff. 75r-90v
Title: מליצות לדרוש
ff. 91r-105v
Title: חרוזים
f. 106r
Title: אגרות
ff. 106v-112v
Title: מליצות לדרוש
ff. 113r-114r
Title: שירים
ff. 114v-126v
Title: חרוזים

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 105, 107).
Extent: 126 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 184 × 123 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink starting on f. 2r.

Ff. 1v, 40v, and 41v are blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after f. 40.

Collation

Catchword in almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Running title.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of 19th century.

Decoration

F. 1r: unfinished full border on title page.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Title on spine: 'Miscellaneous Works. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. MS. 10,107.'

History

Origin: 1830 Israel (Jerusalem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 396; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 March 1928.

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_10107 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. pp. 142-143.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL