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Or 9987

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Or 9987
Title:
Esh dat by Ḥayyim Alfandari
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
124 folios (i+124+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1775
End Date:
1775
Date Range:
1775
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Alfandari, Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael, approximately 1660-1733
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
אלפנדרי, חיים בן יצחק רפאל
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9987

Esh dat by Ḥayyim Alfandari

Contents

A collection of Jewish sermons.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-124v
Author: אלפנדרי, חיים בן יצחק רפאל Alfandari, Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael, approximately 1660-1733
Title: אש דת: דרשות על התורה
Title: Esh dat: derashot ʽal ha-Torah

Colophon: נשלם זה הספר ע"י אני עה' מספר ע"ו היום ג' בשבת טוב יום לחדש אלול המ' ש' קהל"ת יעקב לפ"ק במראכש יע"ה וטעם השלמתו מן השמים... f. 124v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid line and chain lines, watermark: three circles with letters in the two lower ones and a crescent in the upper one, with a cross above (e.g. ff. 19-20).
Extent: 124 folios (i+124+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160/170 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, iron gall ink corrosion..

F. 1 is fragmentary and has been fixed with silk gauze; only a little fragment left of f. 8, which is mounted on paper.

Some leaves have been fixed with silk gauze.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 33 38

Uniform layout.

Running title (probably added by a later hand).

Hand(s)

Oriental (North-Africn) cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM-1600, blue cloth binding.

Title on the spine: 'Ḥayyim Al-Fāndārī. Esh Dath. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9987.'

History

Origin: 1775 Morocco (Marrakesh)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 642; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

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_9987 (digital images currently unavailable)

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