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Or 10451

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Or 10451
Title:
Maḥzor le-Yom Kipur, minhag Ḳorfu
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
70 folios (i+70)
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Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1800
Date Range:
1800
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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
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Or 10451

Maḥzor le-Yom Kipur, minhag Ḳorfu

Contents

Prayer book for the Day of Atonement according to the rite of Corfu.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-70v
Title: מחזור מנהג קורפו ליום כפור
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ḳorfu le-Yom Kipur

Title page on f. 1r: זה הספר של הנכבד ונעלה משה חיים ב'' רפאל שמואל הלוי יצ"ו

Colophon: וכתבתי אני אברהם ן' לא"א יוסף עובדיה בשנת ה’תקס"א ליצירה ולחשבונם /1800 f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 6, 21), a crowned shield? (e.g. ff. 1, 35).
Extent: 70 folios (i+70)
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 137 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120/130 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe, starting on f. 2 (= f. א).

Collation

17 quires: i8-3, ii4-1, iii-xv4, xvi6, xvii6-1. Quire i includes front flyleaf.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Ruling and pricking are visible.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the late 18th century; vocalised. Scribe was Yosef Ovadiyah.

Additions:

Notes in Hebrew on f. 1v.

Note in an unidentified language/dialect (perhaps a Romance language?), and calculations on front flyleaf recto.

Binding

Post-1600, decorated paper covers. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1800

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on front flyleaf verso: 'Raffael figlio di Sig.r Beniamin Nissin Levy. Prega il Sig.r Moise di Lassiargele per quest' oggi'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 158; 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10451 (digital images currently unavailable)

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