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Or 10482

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Or 10482
Title:
Miscellaneous works.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
114 folios (i+114+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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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
Moses ben Aaron ben Sheʾerit Shirvāni
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10482

Miscellaneous works.

Contents

A collection of various lexicographical, halakhical, and exegetical texts.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 114 folios (i+114+i)

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '77 אגרון וכ''.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 77; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 2 August 1927.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-95v
Author: Moses ben Aaron ben Sheʾerit Shirvāni
Title: Hebrew-Persian dictionary
Title: אלאגרון (אותיות י-ת)

Covers the Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary of the Bible.

Incomplete: begins at the middle of the letter 'yod'. Lacuna after f. 5.

Probably autograph.

Colophon: תם אל אגרון ב"ד בשבא דהוא י"ד יומי לירח אדר ראשון על יד הדל המסכן משה ב"ר אהרן בר שארית שרואני... שנת אתשעא לשטרות אלכסנדרון .... וליצירה הריט שנה" f. 95v

References

Bacher, Wilhelm, 'Ein hebräisch-persisches Wörterbuch aus dem 15 Jahrhundert', Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 16 (1896), pp. 201-47, 17 (1897), pp. 199-203.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 95 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 123 mm.
Dimensions (written): 163 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 79v is blank.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, fragile leaves, ink stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Left margins are not justified.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 1458-1459 Date is also given in the Seleucid era: 1771 (should be sometime between 1779 or 1781). Persia?

Provenance

II

Contents

ff. 96r-97v
Title: Fragments of commentaries on the Mishnah (Ṭohorot)
Incipit: אחר בצר זה ואבן אחר בצר זה והמת נתון בתוכה מאהיל...

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios (ff. 96-97)
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 119 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with the previous part.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Persia?

Provenance

III

Contents

ff. 98r-98v
Title: Fragments of commentary on the Mishneh Torah (Book X)
Incipit: בפיקותי מאי נקליט פיר טחר עומד...

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 192 × 116 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numeral in pencil; continuous with the previous part.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Left margins are not justified.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Persia?

Provenance

IV

Contents

ff. 99r-114v
Title: ʿAmuḳot Shemuʾel: perushe milim bi-Shemuʾel
Title: עמוקות שמואל: פרושי מלים בשמואל
Incipit: נתחיל בעמוקות שמואל f. 99r

A Hebrew-Persian commentary on the Book of Samuel and the beginning of the Book of Kings.

Covers the Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary of the Bible.

Unfinished at the end.

References

Bacher, Wilhelm, 'Ein persicsher Kommentar zum Buche Samuel', Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 51 (1897), pp. 392-425.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 16 folios (ff. 99-114)
Dimensions (leaf): 183 × 119 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with the previous part.

Collation

Catchword on some of the verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Left margins are not justified.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Persia?

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10482 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 42.
    Fihrist online catalogue (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_5184)

Funding of Cataloguing

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