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Or 12278

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Or 12278
Title:
Hagadah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
60 folios (v+60+v)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Mosheh ben Yaʿaḳov Ḥefets
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Or 12278

Hagadah

Contents

Passover Hagadah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-60r
Title: הגדה של פסח
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Incipit: אור לארבעה עשר בניסן סודקין את החמץ בכל המקומות

With kabbalistic prayers and supplements, Including two fragments from the Zohar for the two nights of Passover.

With numerous supplements and notes according to the kabbalah in the margins and between the lines, written by different hands.

Perhaps copied from a printed book (see page layout, style of script)?

Colophon: אמר המעתיק יגעתי ובקשתי ולא מצאתי המספר ... וירדה לשאול נפשי מאת ר’ משה בכ"מ כהר"ר יעקב חפץ ... f. 3v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 8, 9, 14, 27).
Extent: 60 folios (v+60+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 126 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

5 quires of 12 leaves (ff. 1-12, 13-24, 25-36, 37-48, 49-60).

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Water damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Number of written lines per page varies.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Edges are painted in red.

Hand(s)

Italo-Ashkenazi square script of the 17th-18th century; partially vocalised. Scribe: R. Mosheh ben Yaʿaḳov Ḥefets.

Decoration

Diagram in the shape of a table on f. 3v: זה השלחן אשר לפני ה'.

Additions:

Marginal notes in Italian Hebrew cursive script, in Oriental and in Ashkenazi scripts.

Binding

Post-1600, decorated paper covers; decorated paper pastedowns. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 419; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 March 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12278 (digital images currently unavailable)

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