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Or 9659
Title:
Gan ha-meshalim ṿeha-ḥidot by Todros Abulafia
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
345 folios (i+345+xxviii)
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Start Date:
1899
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1899
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CE
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Names:
Abulafia, Todros ben Judah, 1247-1300
Abulafia, Todros ben Judah, 1247-1300
Saul Abdallah Joseph
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Or 9659

Gan ha-meshalim ṿeha-ḥidot by Todros Abulafia

Contents

Dīwān or collected poems.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-345v
Author: אבולעפיה, טודרוס בן יהודה Abulafia, Todros, ha-Levi, 1247-
Title: גן המשלים והחידות
Title: Gan ha-meshalim ṿeha-ḥidot

It was copied from a seventeenth-century Egyptian manuscript, which was eventually acquired by Saul Abdallah Joseph (1849-1906), a Baghdadi Jewish businessman and amateur scholar. Joseph made a copy of the manuscript and brought it back to his home in Hong Kong (see Wacks, Double Diaspora pp. 64-66).

Date is added several times throughout the manuscript, in pencil (e.g. ff. 125r).

Saul Abdallah Joseph prepared the manuscript for publication, but it was only published posthumous by David Yellin (see Evri and Behar, 'Between East and West', p. 299).

According to the Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, vol. IV, it is dated to 1889.

References

Wacks, David A. Double diaspora in Sephardic literature: Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]), pp. 64-66.
Evri, Yuval and Almog Behar, 'Between East and West: Controversies Over the Modernization of Hebrew Culture in the Works of Shaul Abdallah Yosef and Ariel Bension', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 16, no. 2 (2017), p. 299 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2017.1280904)

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: lion in a crown circle, and countermark: 'T.H. Saunders 1876' (e.g. ff. 1, 3, 4).
Extent: 345 folios (i+345+xxviii)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 168 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink from f. 68 (= f. ב).

Six unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2. At the end, after f. 345, there are 26 unfoliated blank leaves and 2 flyleaves (in the digital surrogate all are called as flyleaves).

Collation

Mostly quires of 8 leaves.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Text is surrounded by red frame.

Marginal notes in pencil.

Stanzas are numbered.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th-20th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, black leather binding, gold-tooled. In the centre of front cover: 'S. A. Joseph'. Red marble paper pastedowns. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Ibn Abu ʾL-ʿĀfiyah. Dīwān. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9659.'

History

Origin: 1899

Provenance and Acquisition

Note on back flyleaf (xxvii)v: 'This unique copy of the hitherto unknown Diwan of Don Tadros Halevi en Abu Alafia made by our late father Saul Joseph of Hong Kong, from an old original since lost, has been presented to the British Museum by me, on behalf of his children, Joseph Edgar Joseph, Juliet Frorence Toledano and Felix Abrander Joseph - 43, Hollycroft Avenue, Hampstead. London, Wednesday, 28th October, 1925.'; acquisition note on back flyleaf (xxviii)r: 'Presented by F. A. Joseph, Esq. 14 Nov. 1925.'; date of accession 30 November 1925.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9659 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Abulafia, Todros ben Judah, Sefer gan ha-meshalim ṿeha-ḥidot; facsimile with the introduction of Moses Gaster. London: A. Goldston 1926.
    Abulafia, Todros, The Garden of Parables and Riddles: A Collection of the Poems of Tudros ben Yehuda Abulafia: From the Manuscript of Shaul ben Abdallah Yosef Compared to Other Manuscripts [In Hebrew], edited by David Yellin (Jerusalem: Weiss Press, 1932-1936), v. 1, pp. v-ix.
    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), IV, p. 159.
    Wacks, David, 'Whose Todros is it anyway? A medieval Hebrew poet between Europe and Israel', blog post, 2011 (https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/tag/saul-abdallah-yosef/)

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