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Or 9690

Record Id:
032-003399728
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Or 9690
Title:
Copies of letters
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 folios (iii+22+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9690 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1750-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Isaiah Sonne
Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
מנדלסון, משה
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9690

Copies of letters

Contents

Copies of eleven letters of Moses Mendelssohn and model letters and lexical lists.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-10v
Author: מנדלסון, משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Title: אגרות
Title: Igrot

Continues on f. 13r.

ff. 11r-12r
Author: מנדלסון, משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Title: שיר על משה דעסויא
Title: Shir ʿal Mosheh Desoyaʾ

Correct order of leaves: ff. 11v, 11r, 12v.

f. 13r
Author: מנדלסון, משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Title: אגרות
Title: Igrot

Continuation of ff. 2r-10v.

ff. 14r-18v
Author: מנדלסון, משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Title: כתבי שלמה
Title:

ff. 19v-20r
Author: מנדלסון(?), משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786 (?)
Title: Unidentified fragment
Incipit: א - לאיש משתוקק מחבקו ו... החשוב שיכתוב לו

ff. 21v-22v
Author: מנדלסון(?), משה Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786 (?)
Title: ספר מודע לפני בינה
Title: Sefer modaʿ lifne binah

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 13, 20).
Extent: 22 folios (iii+22+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Physical item is incorrectly re-bound from LEFT TO RIGHT. Foliation in pencil must have been done before this incorrect re-binding and the folio numbers thus appear on the right side of the leaves. The digital surrogate displays the leaves in the correct order.

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on most pages.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Red ink stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Number of written lines per page varies.

Numerous corrections.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house binding, black buckram binding.

Title on spine: 'Mendelssohn. Letters. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 9690.'

History

Origin: 1750-1799 2nd half of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Dr. I. Sonne. 3 June, 1925.' I. Sonne is probably identical with Isaiah Sonne (1877-1960). Date of accession 28 May 1926.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9690 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), IV, p. 159.

Funding of Cataloguing

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