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Or 12360

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032-003393574
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Or 12360
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
71 folios (i+71+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Barukh, Yaʿaḳov Yehoshuaʿ
Barukh, Yehoshu'a Bo'az ben Shim'on, scholar, d 1557
Barukh, Yehoshu'a Bo'az ben Shim'on, scholar, d 1557
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Moses Gershon ben Abraham Malach(i)
Yaʿaḳov Yehoshuaʿ Barukh
ברוך, יעקב יהושע
יעקב יהושע ברוך
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12360

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of various texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 71 folios (i+71+ii)
Additions:

Paper slip is glued onto f. 1r: 'Fabrica.de.Elia.Tael.A.amsterdamo. al. Insegno.del.ochiale'.

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note on f. 1v: 'questo libro è di carta che an suorbo(?) non lo quarda se piacere a qualche uno si ne vada a comprar uno et p｢er｣ questo mi son sotto il mio nuome ｢Jacob ... de Berd...｣' Molto mi quardo del dire qunato del fare perche dalli mali lingue mi deve riguardare. Hoggi è dimane andiamo difugiendo sino pian piano la morte ne va giongiendo חגי' וזמני' ולילות נברח מרחוק עד המות תמלא שיה שחוק ג' עדותיה תקרא הניחו לכם מעלה גרה Il casare e molto ficele et il contradine cosi cosi fosse.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 22; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 6 July 1927.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-26v
Title: מגלת ספר
Title: Megilat sefer
Explicit: נשלמה מגלת הכתבים תל... f. 26v

F. 6r, at the bottom of the page: אני משה גרדון בכמ' אברהם מלאך יצ"ו.

Cf. printed edition 1542 Venice (http://www.hebrewbooks.org/20233).

F. 6r cf. Johannis Buxtorfi Institutio Epistolaris Hebraica... (Basel, 1629), p. 255.

F. 6v cf. Johannis Buxtorfi Institutio Epistolaris Hebraica... (Basel, 1629), p. 251.

ff. 27r-32v
Title: מעשה אברהם אבינו ע"ה
Title: Maʿaśeh Avraham Avinu a.h.

Colophon: אני כותב משה גרשון בכמר' אברהם מלאך f. 32r
ff. 33r-37v
Title: זמירות לשבת
Title: Zemirot le-shabat
Incipit: כי אשמרה שבת אל ישמרני אות f. 33r

Piyuṭ on the Sabbath with a commentary in Judeo-Italian.

Unfinished at the end.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 11-12, 30-31).
Extent: 37 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 184 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 162 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

2 quires: i20, ii18-2.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 28 29

Running titles.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 17th century; scribe: Moses Gershon ben Abraham Malach(i).

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 38r-47v
Author: ברוך, יעקב יהושע Barukh, Yaʿaḳov Yehoshuaʿ
Title: אגרון
Title: Irgon

Copies of letters by members of the Barukh family, written mainly at Asti (אסטי), and some at Savigliano between 1647 and 1653.

F. 43v: יעקב יהושע .. ברוך

ff. 48v-57r
Title: אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
Title: Alfa beta de-Ben Siraʾ

ff. 57v-58r
Title: שאלה בענין תינוק בן קיימא
Title: Sheʾelah be-ʿinyan tinokh ben Ḳayamaʾ

ff. 59r-59v
Author: יהושע בועז Yehoshuʿa Boʿaz, active 16th century
Title: דיני חמץ ומצה
Title: Dine ḥamets u-matsah

F. 59r: ליקוטי' כתב זקני הגאון כמוהר"ר יהושע בעז ....

ff. 60r-64r
Author: יעקב יהושע ברוך Yaʿaḳov Yehoshuaʿ Barukh
Title: אגרון
Title: Irgon
Incipit: האיש מרדכי הולך וגדול ...

F. 63r: ... יעקב יהושע ... ברוך יצ"ו היקר.

ff. 65r-66r
Title: לקוטים
Title: Liḳuṭim
Incipit: ליום שני חג שבועות תי"א ליצ' f. 65r

F. 65r: the date ｢5｣411 (1651) is mentioned.

ff. 67v-69r
Title: ראשי תיבות לפסוקי מקרא
Title: Rashe tevot li-fesuḳe Miḳraʾ

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: crescent with cross on top (?) (e.g. ff. 55, 62, 67-68).
Extent: 34 folios (ff. 38-71)
Dimensions (leaf): 179 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 38 = f. ד. This shows that at least 3 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Ff. 48r, 58v, 62v, 64v, 67r, 69v are blank.

19 blank leaves after f. 59.

7 blank leaves after f. 64.

10 blank leaves after f. 66.

4 blank leaves after f. 69.

Collation

8 quires: i6, iitwo, iii-iv12, v8, vi-vii12, viii10.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Ruling is visible (horizontal lines for the margins).

Section headings are in larger, square script in the right margins.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 1651-1699 2nd half of the 17th century Italy

Additional Information

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

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