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Or 10842

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032-003391218
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Or 10842
Title:
Goralot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
12 folios (i+12+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10842

Goralot

Contents

Lots of divination.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-12v
Title: גורלות
Title: Goralot
Incipit: גורל אם ישוב הבעל לאשתו או האשה לבעלה

Numbered lists, sorted according to names of birds, although different from Saʿadia Gaʾon's lots of divination.

Other lots of divination are in the first page, among which is "a lot of divination from the genius […] Eliyahu".

Incomplete.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines, no watermark.
Extent: 12 folios (i+12+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 166 × 161 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, dirt.

Outer corners of the leaves have worn off.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Ruling is visible.

Ff. 1v-12v: numbered lists.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive (emulating printed Rashi script) and square script of the 17th-18th century.

Additions:

Illegible note in Ashkenazi cursive script in the outer margin on ff. 3r and 7r; note in the outer margin on f. 10r in Ashkenazi cursive script, partially legible: יצחק ... הכהן

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1017 גורלות'.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1017; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 23 May 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10842 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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