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Or 10668

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Or 10668
Title:
ʿAmude ʿolam (Libes briv) by Isaac Wetzlar
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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:
63 folios (63+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10668 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
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Yiddish
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1777
End Date:
1777
Date Range:
1777
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Solomon Zalman ben Jacob Eschau
Wetzlar, Isaac, d 1751
Wetzlar, Isaac, d 1751
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Or 10668

ʿAmude ʿolam (Libes briv) by Isaac Wetzlar

Contents

An ethical treatise in Yiddish.

Language(s): Yiddish, Hebrew

ff. 1ar-63r
Author: וצלר, יצחק Wetzlar, Isaac, -1751
Title: עמודי עולם (ליבס בריב)
Title: ʿAmude ʿolam (Libes briv)

Title page in Yiddish and in Hebrew on f. 1ar: ספר עמודי העולם - איין ליבש בריף אן מיינה ליבה ברידר אונד שוועסטרין... - זה ספר תולדות אדם בדורו האדם הגדול היקר המפורסם התורני החכם השלם הקצין כהר"ר איצק וועצלר זצ"ל נעשה ונגמר בשנת תיו קוף טית לפ"ק .

The work was composed in 1748/9. The colophon on title page (f. 1ar) gives the date of the production of the manuscript incorrectly as Adar Sheni 437 (1677). The correct date is given in the colophon at the end of the manuscript (f. 63r): Adar Sheni 537 (1777).

This copy was written for a woman Gimkhe, wife of R. Getshlig.

Colophon: זה הספר נכתב לפני הקצינה המהוללת ברוב תשבחות אשת חיל עטרת בעלה ... באוהל תבורך מרת גימכה תי' אשת ... כה"ר געטשליג ... נעשה בחדש א"ש לפרט י'די'ה ש'ל'חה' ל'אב'יון' f. 1ar .
Colophon: כתב ידי הקטן שלמה זלמן בן מוהר"ר יאקב עשוויא זצ"ל בשנת תקל"ז לפ"ק בחדש א"ש f. 63r .

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, 'Maid of Dort' with the motto Pro Patria (e.g. fol. 54-55) countermark: CR (e.g. f. 24)
Extent: 63 folios (63+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 201 × 158 mm.
Dimensions (written): 157 × 117 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil and in ink in the lower outer corner of the recto sides.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

In the digital surrogate, f. 1 is called f. 1a, and the unfoliated leaf after f. 1 is called f. 1b.

Ff. 1av and 2v are blank.

Collation

6 quires: i12+1, ii-v12, vi6-2. Quire vi includes back flyleaf.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, often square script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century. Scribe: Solomon Zalman ben Jacob Eschau.

Decoration

F. 1ar: illustrated title page.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, half bound with marble paper covers. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1777

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 117; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 September 1927.

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_10668 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Aptroot, Marion and Jasmina Huber, 'The Manuscripts of Isaac Wetzlar's Libes Briv', Transversal: Journal for Jewish Studies 13, no. 1 (2015), pp. esp. p. 22 (https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tra.2015.13.issue-1/tra-2015-0004/tra-2015-0004.pdf).

Funding of Cataloguing

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