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Or 10659
Title:
Goralot ha-ḥol
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
76 folios (ii+76+i)
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Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Claudius Ptolemaeus
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
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Or 10659

Goralot ha-ḥol

Contents

Astrological treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew, Ladino

ff. 1r-76v
Title: גורלות החול
Title: Goralot ha-ḥol

Most probably that it is a composition on Goralot ha-Hol by Avraham Ibn Ezra.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

ff. 1r-11r
Title: שבעה דרכים
Title: Shivʿa Derakhim

The beginning is missing, start from the middle of Derekh III.

Ptolemy quoted on f. 8v, and Abraham ibn Ezra on ff. 1v and 7v.

ff. 11v-52v
Title: השער הכולל משפטי השאלות
Title: Shaʿar ha-Kolel Mishpate ha-Sheʾelot

Divided into 12 batim and 100 simanim.

ff. 52v-60r
Title: הוראות העדים והדיין
Title: Horaʾot ha-ʿedim ṿeha-dayan

Arranged in five-column tables.

ff. 60r-65r
Title: גורלות שונות
Title: Goralot shonot

F. 64v, last four lines are not in Hebrew but in Ladino?

ff. 65r-76v
Title: חכמת היונמציאה
Title: Ḥokhmat ha-yomantsiyah

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark(e.g. ff. 3-4, 51-52).
Extent: 76 folios (ii+76+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

6 quires: i12-3, ii-vi12.

Catchword on every verso.

Singatures in Hebrew characters at the end of the quires (ff. 9v, 21v, 33v, 45v, 57v, 69v). First signature on f. 9v is number 3, that shows that two quires are missing from the beginning.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Some of the leaves are damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Wide outer margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 16th-17th century.

Binding

Post-1600, brown cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'גורל המזלות 679'.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 76v: a reference to the Schwager-Frankel catalogues: 'N. 13 Schwager'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 679; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

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_10659 (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. p. 147.

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