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Or 10816

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032-003409757
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Or 10816
Title:
Miscellaneous texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10816 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1695
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1695-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham ben Shabbethai, ha-Kohen, of Zante, 1670-1729
Abraham ben Shabbethai, ha-Kohen, of Zante, 1670-1729
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ibn Yaḥya, Bonsenior, fl 15th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65438573
Ibn Yaḥya, Bonsenior
Malka, Yaʿaḳov ibn
Naʾim, Makhluf ben Yosef
מלכא, יעקב אבן
נאים, מכלוף בן יוסף
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10816

Miscellaneous texts

Contents

A collection of letters and poetry, mostly from Italy.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 17th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: folios
Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown buckram binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'קובץ 1250'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1695-1899 17th-19th century (not before 1695)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1250; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 31 December 1931.

I

Contents

f. 1r
Title: כתובת גרושה. בוקרשט. תרכ"ו
Title: Ketubat gerushah. Buḳareshṭ. 626
Language(s): Hebrew

The bridegroom is Yaʿaḳov ben Mordekhai, the bride is Shendel Ester bat Avraham Abush (שינדיל אסתר ב’ מוה’ אברהם אבוש).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 164 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 1 and the unfoliated, blank leaf after it are two halves of the same bifolio. .

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1866 Romania (Bucharest)

Provenance

II

Contents

Author: נאים, מכלוף בן יוסף Naʾim, Makhluf ben Yosef
Title: תשובה בענין גט לבתולה שנשאה בעל כורחה
Title: Teshuvah be-ʿinyan geṭ li-vetulah she-niśʾah beʿal korḥah
Language(s): Hebrew

Sent to Yitsḥaḳ ben Shemuʾel.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio (f. 2)
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

F. 2v is blank.

Condition

Usage stains, ink slightly fainted, fragile leaf with tears.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew (North-African) cursive script of the 18th-19th century

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

III

Contents

f. 3r
Author: מלכא, יעקב אבן Malka, Yaʿaḳov ibn
Title: תשובה בענין שותפין
Title: Teshuvah be-ʿinyan shutafin
Language(s): Hebrew

Sent to Shemuʾel Abudarham ben Shelomoh.

F. 3v: הר' ר' יעקב ן' מלכה.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio (f. 3)
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 109 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Condition

Usage stains, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew (North-African) cursive script of the 18th-19th century

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

IV

Contents

ff. 4r-8v
Author: אברהם בן שבתי הכהן Abraham ben Shabbtai ha-Kohen, of Zante, 1670-1729
Title: שירים
Title: Shirim
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

The Hebrew poems were sent with letters in Italian (in Latin script) in the years 1695-1696.

Autograph. Letters signed as Abraham Sacerdote.

F. 7v-8r: draft of some poems.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 5 folios (ff. 4-8)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Condition

Usage stains, tears, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script and Latin cursive script of the late 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1695-1696 Italy

Provenance

V

Contents

ff. 9r-10r
Author: יחיא, בונשניור אבן Ibn Yaḥya, Bonsenior
Title: מליצת צחוק האישקקי
Title: Melitsat tseḥoḳ ha-Ishḳaḳi
Language(s): Hebrew
Incipit: בראשית ממלכת החילים

An essay on chess playing.

Running title:

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios (ff. 9-10)
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 109 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink: f. 9 = f. כ; f. 10 = f. כא.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Fragment from another manuscript.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Ff. 10r-10v: numeorus notes in Latin script: 'finis, Ishac Nehemias. ... de Castro, guarde ...; date is given on f. 10v: '... de creatione del mundo de 5472 a30 de febat. Vesa... corresponde.. 6 Jan. de 1711... Hamburg'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th-19th century

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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