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Or 10697
- Record Id:
- 032-003394657
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100055771721.0x000001
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 10697
- Title:
- Liturgical collection
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- [{ "id" : "032-003394657", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 10697: Liturgical collection" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 50 folios (i+50+x)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10697 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Italian - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1600-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10697
Liturgical collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: Leaves from printed liturgical works accompanied by handwritten kabbalistic prayers, notes and annotations, and Italian translation.Language(s): Hebrew, Italian
ff. 1r-50rTitle: תפלות: על דרך הקבלהTitle: Tefilot: ʿal derekh ha-ḲabalahIncipit: תפילה נוראהF. 46r: קוונות תקיעה שופר.
Printed material (exact editions are yet to be identified) includes a reading for Ḥanukah, hymns celebrating the unity of God (שירי היחוד), and a piyuṭ by Judah ibn Gabirol called 'Keter Malkhut'.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: bearded man with a stick (e.g. ff. 2-3), with countermark: 'GC'(?) (e.g. ff. 49-50).Extent: 50 folios (i+50+x)Dimensions (leaf): 244 × 171 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
An unfoliated blank leaf after f. 13.
Collation
8 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1-6), ii-vii8 (ff. 7-13, 14-21, 22-29, 30-37, 38-45, 46-50, unfoliated leaves), viii8-1 (unfoliated leaves), Quire i included the blank leaf before f. 1 (in digital surrogate called as front flyleaf). Quire vii and viii include unfoliated blank leaves at the end (in digital surrogate they are cold back flyleaves). The missing leaves from quires i and viii serve as front and back pastedowns. Loose paper slip in manuscript is called back flyleaf (xi) in digital surrogate.
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1
Number of written lines per page varies.
Handwritten leaves are mixed with printed pages mounted onto the leaves. Printed pages mounted on ff. 14r-44v.
Handwritten notes, annotations in Hebrew on the printed pages (e.g. ff. 3r, 5v, 6v); handwritten marginal notes in Italian (Latin script) around the printed pages (e.g. ff. 35v-44v).
Text on f. 45v is entirely in Italian (Latin script).
Hand(s)
Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 17th-18th century.
Decoration
Additions:Binding
Decorated paper covers. Boxed.
Accompanying Material
Two loose paperslips at the end. One of them has a note on it in Hebrew cursive script: שירים של ברכות ... ושל רבנים אחרים, the other has a fragment of a prayer in Hebrew square script: ובכן יתקדש שמך יי אלהינו על ישראל עמך (called back flyleaf (xi) in digital surrogate.
History
Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 51; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 July 1927.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10697 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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