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Or 12367
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- Or 12367
- Title:
- Pinḳas
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 34 folios (ii+34+ii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12367 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1773
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1773-1799
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 12367
Pinḳas
Contents
Summary of Contents: Notes on passages in biblical, talmudic and kabbalistic literature; followed by notes of travels, lists of books and memoranda.Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-34vTitle: פנקסTitle: PinḳasThe name of the author is not given, but he appears to have been an inhabitant of Ragusa, and lived in the latter half of the 18th century. NLI catalogue attributes it to Jacob Pardo.
A major part of it are novellae and homilies on the Torah.
F. 23v: A few charms and medicines he learned about while being at Mantova.
From f. 23v onwards: on the printing of his father's, David Pardo's book, Sefer Ḥasdi le-Daṿid, including lists of books he planned to send as a gift to various persons, among them are the commentator Rabbi Yaʿakov Nunez Weis and the rabbi's who gave their approbations (haskamot) to the book. He also mentions Mosheh Hai Malul (f. 25r) who was the editor of the book.
On ff 28r-29v: descriptions of his journeys, which began and ended in Raguza, of the various Rabbis he met, of his financial outcomes etc. He began his journeys in 9 Ḥeshṿan 5535, that is 1774. F. 28r: בתישע לחדש חשון ש' תחל ש'נה ובר'כ'ותי'ה' ליצירה יצאתי מעיר רגוזא
He writes of financial debts and of books he wanted to sell or to give away, and mentions, among others, "Rabbi Amram Divon who is the emissary of Hebron" (f. 33v).
In several places in the composition are lists of books, printed texts and manuscripts (f. 3v, etc.).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines aExtent: 34 folios (ii+34+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 142 × 96 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Blank leaf after f. 7.
Collation
2 quires: i8-1, ii30-3.
Condition
Between ff. 23 and 24 two leaves have been torn out.
Lower half of f. 26 is missing.
F. 30r is incomplete.
Layout
Columns:1
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.
Decoration
Additions:F. 30r: calculations; notes in Hebrew and in Italian in Latin script.
F. 34r: sticker: '686'.
Binding
Post-1600, green cloth binding. In flap case.
History
Origin: 1773-1799 Late 18th century (after 1774)Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 554; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 April 1929.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12367 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Salah, Asher, Le république des lettres: rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 513-514, no. 774.Funding of Cataloguing
BL