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Or 10852
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Extent:
- 10 folios (iii+10+iii)
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Spanish - Scripts:
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Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1500-1599
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10852
Letters
Contents
A collection in letters in Spanish in Latin characters and Ladino.
Language(s): Ladino, Spanish
ff. 1r-10vTitle: אגרות מסחריותTitle: Igrot misḥariyotIn Spanish (in Latin characters) and in Ladino. Some of them, perhaps all of them, were sent to Yehudah Kaṭarivas (קאטאריבאש) in Skopje (אשקופיה).
F. 1r: letter by Mosheh ben Yosef ha-Kohen, in which Rabbi Isaac Kimhi in Ancona and Avraham Ibn Shoshan are mentioned; dated 8 Shevaṭ 5325 (20 January 1565).
F. 3r: letter in which Shalom Tsarfati and Gavriʾel Desisah (דיסיסה) are mentioned. Upper part of the leave is damaged.
F. 4r: letter to Yehudah Kaṭarivas signed by Eliʿezer Saso (שאשו) in which Daniʾel Rodrigez is mentioned; dated 8 Tevet 5320 (18 December 1559), Ancona.
F. 5r: letter from Saloniki. Date on top is hardly legible; incomplete at the end.
Ff. 6r-6v: letter from David Lok written to "old Yehudah Kaṭarivas in Skopje", in which Menaḥem Sholem and Yosef Lindo are mentioned. Dated 7 Tamuz 5323 (8 July 1563), Saloniki. F. 6v: address. Folding lines.
F. 7v: letter in Spanish in Latin characters from Raguza; dated 5323?.
Ff. 8r-8v: letter in Spanish in Latin characters from Josef Sankado (?), F. 8r: addressed to: Mag.ro Dmno ... Jeuda Cataribas - Iscopia (Skopje). Folding lines.
Ff. 9r-9v: letter written in "Saloniki in the second day of Ḥol ha-Moʿed ｢5｣323 (1562/63), in which Shemuʾel Arkiʾah (ארכיאו?) and "Rabbi Kalonymus" are mentioned. F. 9v: address, but it is hardly legible due to previous conservation work on the leaf. Folding lines.
Ff. 10r-10v: letter to (Skopje). F. 10v: addressed to: 'Mag.ro Domino Jehuda Cataribas ... - Escopia'. Folding lines.
Fragments of the correspondence also in London BL Or 12351.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Various kinds of paper, all with laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 10 folios (iii+10+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 146/162 × 206/214 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Ff. 1v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v, 7r are blank.
F. 2 is a smaller paper slip inserted into the collation.
Collation
Letters bound together.
Condition
Usage stains, worm damage, water damage.
Some leaves are damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Layout is not uniform.
Hand(s)
Sefardi cursive script and Latin cursive script of the 16th century.
Binding
Post-1600, light blue cloth binding. In flap case.
History
Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy (Ancona); Greece (Thessalonike); Croatia (Dubrovnik); Skopje (Macedonia)Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1245; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 23 December 1931.
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
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10852 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. pp. 148-149.Funding of Cataloguing
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