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Or 10789

Record Id:
032-003392198
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10789
Title:
Seder ha-geṭo be-Manṭovah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
6 folios (ii+6+iv)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10789 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1620
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1620-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10789

Seder ha-geṭo be-Manṭovah

Contents

Decrees regarding the Jewish community of Mantua.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-6r
Title: סדר הגטו במנטובה
Title: Seder ha-geṭo be-Manṭovah

Copied from the Mantova printed version ｢5｣380 (in 1619/20), including the version of the title page.

Title page on f. 1r: סדר הגיטו - תקונים וסדרים... נדפס בישע' חלקים וברשות רוממתו ירה ... שבט שנת הלבישני בגדי ישע מעיל צדקה יעטני בבית כמ"ר יהודה שמואל מפרישה ובנו In Mantova Con Licenza de Superioris'.

Matters concerning accommodation. On f. 6r, at the end, signed by five men (מהנבחרים): Yehoshʿa Hai, Malkiʾel Ashkenazi, Mosheh Meshaʿar Arie (משה משער אריה) Mordekhai Kohen, and Mosheh ... (משה מריוירי).

The note at the bottom of the title page naming Ḥananiah Meron is copied from the printed edition (על ידי צעיר הנבחר חנניה מארון בכמ"ר מרדכי ז"ל).

References

S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua, vol. 1, Jerusalem, 1962, p. 271 (Hebrew).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 4-5).
Extent: 6 folios (ii+6+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 152 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 8 leaves (including the two unfoliated blank leaves after f. 6, which are called back flyleaves in digital surrogate).

Catchword on some of the pages.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 26 28

Uniform layout.

Very narrow margins.

Vertical lines of ruling are visible (in hard point).

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Original covers are called as front flyleaf (ii) and back flyleaf (iii) in the digital surrogate. Title on original front cover: 'סדר הגיטו Mantova'.

M. Gster's label on spine: '1053 ס' הגיטו'.

History

Origin: 1620-1699 17th century (not before 1620) Italy (Mantua)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1053; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 October 1931.

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_10789 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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