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Or 12342

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032-003393645
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Or 12342
Title:
Ṭofse sheṭarot, taḳanot, pisḳe bet din ṿe-egron
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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:
64 folios (i+64+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
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Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1725
Date Range:
1600-1725
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 12342

Ṭofse sheṭarot, taḳanot, pisḳe bet din ṿe-egron

Contents

A collection of model letters and documents.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-64v
Title: טופסי שטרות, תקנות, פסקי בית דין ואגרון
Title: Ṭofse sheṭarot, taḳanot, pisḳe bet din ṿe-igron

Ff. 1r-19v: versions of sheṭarot (legal documents) etc.

Ff. 20r-50v: model letters.

Ff. 51r-61r: versions of tenaʾe (conditions of) betrothal.

Among others it contains an appeal from the communities of Rome and Ancona to help Jews who had been expelled "from papal states in the year in 1568/9" (קריאה לעזור למגורשים ממדינת הכנסיה בשנת שכ"ט מאת "בני ק"ק רומה ... ואנקונה) (ff. 22r-22v).

Also contains a letter from Shelomoh of Modena to his brother sent from a prison in Bologna" (האגרת הזאת ששלח כמהר"ר שלמה ממודינה מבולונייה מבית האסורי’ אל אחיו) (ff. 32r-33r).

On f. 61r: model tenaʾim (conditions) in Italian (Latin characters).

F. 62r: an appeal in Ashkenazi cursive hand from the Ashkenazi synagogue in Padua for funds to replace the Ark and the reading desk which has been stolen. Dated 12 Teveṭ 5462 (1702 CE).

On ff. 61v-64v: indices.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th - early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 3, 5, 10-11).
Extent: 64 folios (i+64+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 149 mm.
Dimensions (written): 161 × 123 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation ink; f. 1 = f. כ, that is, at least 20 folios are missing from the beginning.

F. 60v is blank.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, ink stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Lower margin of ff. 18-20 is mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

Additions:

A sticker with an old catalogue number(?) is stuck on f. 20v.

Binding

Post-1600, mauve cloth binding. In flap case.

History

Origin: 1600-1725 17th - early 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 272; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 February 1928.

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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