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Or 10468

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Or 10468
Title:
Maḥzor le-Rosh ha-Shanah, minhag Romanya
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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:
36 folios (i+36+i)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
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 10468

Maḥzor le-Rosh ha-Shanah, minhag Romanya

Contents

The evening and morning services for the New Year, according to the rite of Corfu.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-36v
Title: מחזור מנהג רומניא לראש השנה
Title: Maḥzor minhag Romanya le-Rosh ha-Shanah
Incipit: סדר ערבית של ראש השנה

Instructions in smaller, cursive script.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 36 folios (i+36+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, rodent damage, iron gall ink corrosion, water damage.

Very fragile, brittle leaves, some of them have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Numer of written lines per page varies.

Left margins are justified.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Byzantine Hebrew square and cursive script of the 18th century; partially vocalised.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '154 מחזור ר"ה'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Greece (Corfu)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 154; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 September 1927.

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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