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Or 10363

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Or 10363
Title:
Agadeta de-Fisḥa
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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:
42 folios (i+42+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1814
End Date:
1814
Date Range:
1814
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Seleucid
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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 10363

Agadeta de-Fisḥa

Contents

Haggadah service for Passover with commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-42v
Title: אגדתא דפסחא
Title: Agadeta de-Fisḥa

In the margins Judeo-Arabic commentary.

At the end of the manuscript are compilations of homiletic commentaries and accents.

Colophon: הכותב סעיד בן מו’ יוסף יצ"ו בשנת ב’קכ"ה לחודש שבט: ונשלם יום חמישי לחודש f. 41v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 42 folios (i+42+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 111 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

4 quires: i8+1, ii14+1, iii14, iv4.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:3

Main text in the middle with square script, and commentary in smaller, semi-cursive script on the inner and outer margins.

Running title.

Section headings in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Scribe: Said ben Yosef.

Decoration

The three columns are often framed individually with a red line.

Coloured initial words (e.g. ff. 4r, 8r, 20r).

Simple geometrical decorations in black and red ink (e.g. ff. 3v, 7v, 19v, 27v).

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on the spine: '385 אגדת דפסחא'.

History

Origin: 1814 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 385; 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_10363 (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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