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Or 9780

Record Id:
032-003390676
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9780
Title:
Responsa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
125 folios (i+125+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1793
End Date:
1811
Date Range:
1793-1811
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac, ha-Kohen, 1723-1811
Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac, ha-Kohen, 1723-1811
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9780

Responsa

Contents

Responsa by Ishmael ha-Kohen.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-125v
Author: Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac, ha-Kohen, 1723-1811 ישמעאל בן אברהם יצחק, הכהן
Title: שאלות ותשובות
Title: Sheʼelot u-teshuvot

In the manuscript: by "Yishma’el Kohen" includes notebooks ii-v which include responsa from the years 5553 to 5563 (from 1792 to 1803) (ff. 28r-96v). Most are autographs, some are "fine copy".

First responsum dated Livorno 5546, that is 1785/6, on f. 2v.

ff. 16r-125r
Title: קונ' ב' חלק א'
ff. 16r-125r
Title: קונ' ב' חלק ב'

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: Bolnisi cross and underneath the letters: F. A. S. (e.g. ff. 18, 19).
Extent: 125 folios (i+125+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 286 × 198 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

On guards.

Catchword on most of the pages.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, ink stains.

Ff. 46-49: leaves have been cut into half vertically, and only one half has survived of each leaf.

F. 123a: only fragment of the leaf has survived, and it is bound upside down.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Number of written lines per page varies.

Numerous corrections, deletions, marginal and interlinear notes.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding. Brown leather.

Title on spine: 'Ishmael Cohen. Responsa. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9780.'

History

Origin: 1793-1811 Late 18th century - early 19th century (not after 1811) Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquistion note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Luzac & Co. 9 Apr. 1927.' Date of accession 27 April 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9780 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), IV, p. 159.

Funding of Cataloguing

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