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Or 10420

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Or 10420
Title:
Meʾoraʿot Tsevi
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
33 folios (iii+33+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1858
End Date:
1859
Date Range:
1858-1859
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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
Shabtai Tsevi
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Or 10420

Meʾoraʿot Tsevi

Contents

Summary of Contents: A history of Shabtai Tsevi and his adherents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-33r
Title: מאורעות צבי
Title: Meʾoraʿot Tsevi

This copy was made from the printed edition published in Warsaw, 1838 (Ṿinograd Warsaw 154); see note on front flyleaf (i)r. Contains page references to this printed edition (e.g. top of ff.7r, 13r).

Title page on f. 1r: מאורעות צבי אשר נלקט מאגרת ... יעקב ששפורטו זצללה"ה שהיו[!] בימי משיח השקר שבתאי צבי ימ"ש ומן ספר הגאון חכם צבי זצללה"ה ומן ספר הרב הגאון ר' משה חאגיז זצללה"ה ואותם שהיו בזמניהם ... .

Title written by M. Gaster on front flyleaf (i)r: ס' מאורעות צבי History of Sabbatai Zebi. Anterior to printed edition(?).

Title on front flyleaf (ii)r: ספור חלומות - תולדות שבתי צבי (חסר) (נעתק בשנת תרו"ט אחרי דפוס ווארשווא תקצ"ח).

Text on f. 12r is crossed out (seems to be identical with the first half of f. 9r).

Incomplete.

Colophon: נעתק אות באות ע"י ח' בי"ד בבאקארעשט איש ירושלמי שנת תרי"ט כ"ד ... f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 33 folios (iii+33+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 172 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 6v, 33v are blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after f. 7, fourteen unfoliated leaves after f. 11.

Collation

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

Post-1600, blue cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'ספור חלומות 48'.

History

Origin: 1858-1859 Romania (Bucharest)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 48; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 July 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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