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Or 7768

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032-003382492
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Or 7768
Title:
Recensions of Megilat Mitsrayim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
11 folios (i+11+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_7768 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1500-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
S. Raffalovich
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 7768

Recensions of Megilat Mitsrayim

Contents

Two recensions of Megilat Mitsrayim

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 16th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 11 folios (i+11+i)
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Numerous modern fillers after f. 11 (not displayed in digital surrogate).

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding.

Title on spine: 'Megillath Miśraïm. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. OR. 7768.'

History

Origin: 1500-1799 16th-18th century Orient

Provenance and Acquisition

Cairo Genizah

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of S. Raffalovich. Dec. 13. 1898.'.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-8v
Title: מגלת מצרים
Title: Megilat Mitsrayim
Incipit: מגלת השטן הידוע
Explicit: חזק ונתחזק הכותב לא יזק

A recension of Megilat Mitsrayim (Version A, see Hary, Multiglossa), composed in commemoration of the deliverance, in 1524, of the Caïrone Jews from the destruction which the rebel leader Aḥmed Pasha had designed for them.

Hebrew text in the right column, Judeo-Arabic translation in the left column.

References

Hary, Benjamin H. Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic: with an Edition, Translation and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll (Leiden: Brill, 1992), p. 135, his MS B/ב.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 8 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 211 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165/170 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword at the end of each column on the verso sides.

Condition

Very damaged, fragile leaves with numerous holes; they have been fixed with silk gauze.

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 20 27

Uniform layout.

Each column is in frame.

Justification of left margins mostly by elongated letters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi/North-African semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Egypt?

Provenance

Partially illegible ownership inscriptions on f. 8v: הצעיר ....

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 9r-11v
Title: מגלת מצרים
Title: Megilat Mitsrayim (fragment)
Incipit: אשר במצרים ויבקש

A fragment of another copy of the same recension (Version A, with some slight variants).

Hebrew text in the right column, Judeo-Arabic translation in the left column.

Ff. 9 and 10 are consequtive. Lacuna between ff. 10 and 11.

References

Hary, Benjamin H. Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic: with an Edition, Translation and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll (Leiden: Brill, 1992), p. 134, his MS B1/ב1.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 3 folios (ff. 9-11)
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 134 × 103 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword at the end of each column on the verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage.

Damaged leaves, fixed with silk gauze.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17

Each column is bordered with a red line.

Red dots at the end of each sentence.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance

Additional Information

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: British Museum, 1965).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_7768 (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), no. 584.
    Hary, Benjamin H. Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic: with an Edition, Translation and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll (Leiden: Brill, 1992), pp. 134-135.

Funding of Cataloguing

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