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Or 10340
- Record Id:
- 032-003389643
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100051365215.0x000001
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 10340
- Title:
- Miscellany
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003389643
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 65 folios (iv+65+viii)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10340 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1700-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10340
Miscellany
Contents
Baḳashot and a collection of kabbalistic charms and medical prescriptions.
Language(s): Hebrew
Physical Description
Composite paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 65 folios (iv+65+viii)Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Additions:Calculations on front flyleaf (iii), both recto and verso sides.
Binding
Post-1600, black cloth binding.
M. Gaster's label on spine: '128 סגולות ורפואות תימן'.
History
Origin: 1700-1799 18th century North Africa?Provenance and Acquisition
Note on front flyleaf (ii)v: '26th Tamuz 5650. Volume 3rd'.
Note mentioning the date 26 Av 5651 (1891) on back flyleaf (ii)v. Scribbles (perhaps by the same hand) on back flyleaf (vii), both recto and verso.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 128; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 September 1927.
I
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-4rTitle: בקשותTitle: BaḳashotPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 4 foliosDimensions (leaf): 145 × 93 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
F. 4v is blank.
Unfoliated blank leaf before f. 5.
Collation
A single quire of 4 leaves.
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, worm damage, water damage.
Some leaves are damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 25 26
Section headings are in larger, square script.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew (North African) cursive and square script of the 18th century.
History
Origin: 1700-1799 18th centuryProvenance
II
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 5r-65vTitle: סגלות, קמעות, תרופות וגורלותTitle: Segulot, ḳemeʿot, terufot ṿe-goralotIncipit: לכאב הראש ... יכתוב בשם ה' אלהיPut together from leaves coming from different manuscripts or loose leaves, notes.
Characters of a cryptic alphabet (e.g. ff. 5r, 6v, 8v).
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Various kinds of sizes of paper leaves; some with some without laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 61 folios (ff. 5-65)Dimensions (leaf): 141/147 × 98/100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Ff. 9v, 38v are blank.
Unfoliated blank leaves after f. 6, 4 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 14.
Collation
Indeterminable.
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.
Some leaves are damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Number of written lines per page varies.
Several different hands, different layouts.
Section headings are in larger, square script.
F. 18r: fingerprints.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew (North African) cursive script of the 18th century. Written by at least 7 different scribes.
Decoration
Additions:F. 16 is a paper slip with folding lines. It is on guard.
History
Origin: 1700-1799 18th centuryProvenance
Ownership inscription(?) on f. 64v: 'A moi ... monjoseph'.
Additional Information
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).Availability
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Surrogates
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