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Or 10743

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Or 10743
Title:
Seder ashmurot
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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:
124 folios (ii+124+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1729
End Date:
1730
Date Range:
1729-1730
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CE
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Names:
Gad ben Emmanuel Milhaud
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Israel Cohen
Tsemaḥ Astruc ben Meir Aaron Astruc
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Or 10743

Seder ashmurot

Contents

Penitential prayers for the month of Elul, according to the rite of Lisle and the commune of Avignon.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-123v
Title: סדר אשמורות
Title: Seder ashmurot

Title page on f. 1r: סדר האשמורות שנוהגים לאומרם מראש אלול עד יום כפור כמנהג קהל קדש לשלאה ומחוז אויגניון

Written by Gad ben Emmanuel Milhaud for his brother-in-law Tsemaḥ Astruc ben Meir Aaron Astruc.

Colophon: על ידי אני גד ב"ר עמנואל דמילייאב תמך שנת חמשת אלפים ארבע מאות ותשעים לבריאת עולם סימנו תמי"ם ... לפ"ק נעשה בעד גיסי צמח אשטרו’ ב"ר מאיר אהרן אשטרוק יצ"ו

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: grape (e.g. f. 7, 73).
Extent: 124 folios (ii+124+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 271 × 201 mm.
Dimensions (written): 240 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 1v is blank.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, dirt, foxing.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Provencal Hebrew square script of the 18th century; vocalised. Scribe: Gad ben Emmanuel Milhaud (גד בן עמנואל מיליאב).

Decoration

Title page with decorated full border (f. 1r).

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather binding. Boxed.

On front cover: 'Israel Cohen'.

History

Origin: 1729-1730 France?

Provenance and Acquisition

Inscription in French on front flyleaf (ii)v. Same hand, apparently the patron, Meir Aaron Astruc, made notes on the verso side as well in French and in Hebrew: אני הבהור מאיר אהרן ... אני הצעיר

Ownership inscriptions on f. 124r, dated 1786: ישראל כהן רבקה; ישראל בן אליהו כהן - most probably the same person whose name is on the front cover. Same name, Israel Cohen written in the outer margin on f. 123v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 163; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 October 1927.

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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