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Or 12280

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032-003410065
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Or 12280
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
29 folios (iii+29+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12280

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of fragments.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-29v
Title: Documents and fragments

F. 1: Evidence concerning a woman's wish to be divorced. Signed by Eleazar ibn Mawil(?) and Moses Nahon bar Menahem. Dated 1 Heshṿan 5523 (1762)at Gibraltar.

F. 2: Evidence concerning inheritance. Signed by Solomon Abudraham and Samuel Tsarfati. Dated 28 Elul 5493 (1733) at Tetuan.

Ff. 3-4: Fragment of a kabbalistic interpretation of 'the four who entered Pardes' and of Cain and Abel.

Ff. 5-6: Fragment of a homiletical commentary to Genesis, with an original foliation 1-2.

Ff. 7-8 and 11: Fragment of a novella on Nedarim citing the Nodaʿ bi-Yehudah of Ezekiel Landau.

Ff. 9-10: Biblical and rabbinical excerpts dealing with death and mourning. Followed by a dirge.

Ff. 12-13: decisions 1) by Aaron Elmaleh on property, dated 5594 (1733/4); 2) by Mordechai and Jacob Birdugo on financial matters; 3) by David Rabinaḥ(?) and Eliezer Ḥazan; 4) by Abraham Ezra, Jacob Asbag and Joseph Abitol(?).

F. 14: Rabbinical excerpts (for an anthology?).

F. 15: Fragment of a piyuṭ for Shavuot.

Ff. 16-17: Fragment of a homily citing Isaac Jacob Algazi's works.

Ff. 18-19: Fragment of a homily (a hesped?).

Ff. 20-21: Fragment of a homily.

Ff. 22-23: Kabbalistic and liturgical jottings. Text only on the verso sides.

Ff. 24-27: Fragment of a commentary on Tractate Ketubot, Babylonian Talmud.

Ff. 28-29: Fragment of Sheʾerit Yosef of Joseph ben Shem Tov ben Joshua Ḥai.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 29 folios (iii+29+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 162 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1

Leaves of various types and sizes. Given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.

Hand(s)

Sefardi/North-African cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century; numerous hands.

Binding

Post-1600. In flap case.

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

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century Among others Tetuán and Gibraltar (Iberian Peninsula)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1244; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 18 December 1931.

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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