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Or 10712 A

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Or 10712 A
Title:
Ḥaye Yehudah by Leone Modena (modern copy, vol. 1)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
19 folios (i+19)
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Start Date:
1904
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1904
Date Range:
1904
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
Last, Isaac, 1847-1913
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
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Or 10712 A

Ḥaye Yehudah by Leone Modena (modern copy, vol. 1)

Contents

A modern transcript of an earlier manuscript of an autobiography of Leone Modena in two volumes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-19v
Author: מודנה, יהודה אריה בן יצחק Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
Title: חיי יהודה
Title: Ḥaye Yehudah

A copy of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Michael 238 (Neubauer 1234), which was copied in Trieste in 1833.

In two volumes: vol. 1 = ff. 1-19; vol. 2 = ff. 20-33; for volume 2, see Or 10712 b.

Colophon of the Bodleian MS is at the end of volume 2: נשלמה ההעתקה ביום א' כ' תמוז שנת התקצ"ג פה טריאסטי מאת אליעזר ... ממדינת ליטא (f. 32v).

Colophon: ואני העתקתי הכ"י הזה פה אקספרד ... התרס"ג, יצחק בר"י לאסט f. 32v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Pre-lined paper.
Extent: 19 folios (i+19)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 163 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 20 leaves.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Wide inner margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the early 20th century. Copied by Isaac Last (1847-1913).

Binding

Marble paper covers. The τwo volumes are housed in one flap case.

History

Origin: 1904 England (Oxford)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 918; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 April 1930.

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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