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Or 10773

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032-003399707
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Or 10773
Title:
Sipur Yosef
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
78 folios (ii+78+ii)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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
Shahin, fl. 14th century
Shāhīn Shīrāzī, fl 14th century
Shāhīn Shīrāzī, fl 14th century
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Or 10773

Sipur Yosef

Contents

Epic poems on the story of Joseph.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-78v
Author: Shāhīn Shīrāzī שאהין
Title: ספור יוסף
Title: Sipur Yosef

A portion of the Sharḥ-i Shāhīn-i Torah, the poetical paraphrase of the narrative parts of the Pentateuch by Shāhīn Shīrāzī.

See also [BL] Or 4742.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 78 folios (ii+78+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on most versos.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage, liquid damage.

Many of the leaves have been treated, but they are still very fragile and brittle.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

F. 31 is added by a different hand, perhaps later to supply missing text.

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '780 שאהין'.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 18th century Persia?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 780; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 March 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10773 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 42.
    Fihrist online catalogue (http://www.fihrist.org.uk/profile/manuscript/cd3d69d8-f503-4ade-88f2-715e25abcbd0)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL