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Or 10856

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Or 10856
Title:
Magid mesharim by Joseph Karo
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
58 folios (i+56+ii)
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Start Date:
1731
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1731
Date Range:
1731
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
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Or 10856

Magid mesharim by Joseph Karo

Contents

Joseph Karo's mystical diary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-58r
Author: Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575 קרו, יוסף בן אפרים
Title: מגיד מישרים
Title: Magid mesharim
Incipit: ספר מגיד מישרים להרב הקדוש הגאון מהר"י קארו ז"ל הנדפס בלובלין f. 1r

Ff. 54r-58r: index.

Colophon: כל הספר הקדוש והנורא הזה הועתק ע"י הצעיר יהודה בן הרב הגדול מופלא בדורו כמוהר"ר יוחנן גירון זצ"ל פה פיורינצא והיתה השלמתו בימי חנוכה שנת תצ"ב לפ"ק ואפיריין נמטייה לאיש זכאי הוא ומזכה אן הרבים אהובי וחביבי המיוחד לי משופרי שופרי המשובבים והמזמרים השירים הנבחרים... היקר הנעלה שר שלום כמ"ר שלמה קארו ממשפחת הסופרים יצ"ו... f. 53r .

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 58 folios (i+56+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Collation

Indeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Severe iron gall ink corrosion; due to this holes and illegible text in places.

Several leaves have been fixed.

Water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1034 מגיד מישרים'.

History

Origin: 1731 Italy (Florence)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 58v in Italian, '26 Febraio 1740/41 Firenze - עשרה אדר קתא לפ"ק concede ..issima ...ora la sua ... figliola Simea ...'.

Ownership inscription in pencil on back flyleaf (i)v: אפרים מימון ס"ט

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1034; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 29 September 1931.

Record Sources

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

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