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Or 9983
- Record Id:
- 032-003414575
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003414575
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061130077.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9983
- Title:
- Ḥidushim u-derushim
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- [{ "id" : "032-003414575", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 9983: Ḥidushim u-derushim" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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- 032-003414575
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003414575
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 125 folios (i+125+iii)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9983 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1850
- Date Range:
- 1800-1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 9983
Ḥidushim u-derushim
Contents
Novellae and homilies on the Bible and on the Talmud followed by sermons and panegyrics.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-125vTitle: חדושים ודרושים על פרשיות השבוע, לחגים, לתשובה לצדקה ולהספדTitle: Ḥidushim u-derushim ʿal parshiyot ha-shavuaʿ, le-ḥagim, li-teshuvah, li-tsedaḳah ule-hespedF. 1r: a charm "that he become an inhabitant of the world to come and shall not be harmed in the following year" (שהוא בן העוה"ב ולא יהיה נזוק כל אותה שנה).
F. 90r: a copy of the notebook of the emissary, Rabbi (Hayim Avraham?) Pinso, from the year 5616 (in 1855/56), includes a list of donations. See A. Yaʿari, Sheluhe Erets Yisraʿel, Mossad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, Jerusalem, 1951, p. 734.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: coat of arms with a bend and with crown on top and the letters 'A P' underneath(e.g. ff. 25-26)Extent: 125 folios (i+125+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 150 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Numerous blank leaves in the collation.
Collation
Indeterminable due to tight binding.
No catchwords.
Condition
Usage stains, water damage, mould, smudged ink
Layout
Columns:1
Running title.
Hand(s)
Oriental/Sefardi Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.
Decoration
Additions:Binding
BM in-house, blue cloth binding.
Title on spine: 'Novellae on Bible & Talmud. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9983.'
History
Origin: 1800-1850 1st half of the 19th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 436; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 March 1928.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9983 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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