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Or 10264

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032-003387297
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Or 10264
Title:
Sefer Havdalot by Shelomoh Ḥayim ben Mosheh
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
75 folios (i+755+iii)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1634
End Date:
1635
Date Range:
1634-1635
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Shelomoh Ḥayim ben Mosheh, me-Ḳamaʾiori
שלמה חיים בן משה, מקמאיורי
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Or 10264

Sefer Havdalot by Shelomoh Ḥayim ben Mosheh

Contents

A dictionary (of homonyms?).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-75v
Author: שלמה חיים בן משה, מקמאיורי Shelomoh Ḥayim ben Mosheh, me-Ḳamaʾiori
Title: ספר הבדלות
Title: Sefer Havdalot

Title page (f. 1r): ספר הבדלות אשר אסף בין העמרים שחקי (איש גר יצ"ו חאוע) בו יבאו הבדלות והפרשנות בין תיבה לתיבה ... עיני ... תחזינה נכתב פה כוסיטן שנת שצ"ה

Ff. 2r-2v: Introduction, written by the author.

Arranged according to the letters of the alphabet.

F. 3r: a poem in honour of the composition by Eliyah Mazal Tov.

Ff. 71r-75v: index.

The name of the author may refer to the Camaiore(?), a town in Tuscany, Italy.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (crowned shield?) (e.g. ff. 43, 44).
Extent: 75 folios (i+755+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 142 × 98 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 1v, 2v, 3v are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Worm damage, usage stains.

Water damage, mould, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 21 22

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Decorated title page, in ink (f. 1r).

Additions:

Fragment of a note in Italian on back flyleaf (ii)v: '... asicurandomi fra...'.

Binding

Post-1600, paper binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'ס' הבדלות 482'.

History

Origin: 1634-1635 Italy (Busseto)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions: איש גר יצ"ו חאוע is added on ff. 1r, 2r; איש גר, אנכי בארץ is added on ff. 4r, 75v.

Old catalogue number (?) on front pastedown: 'No 49'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 482; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 August 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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