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Or 10190

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Or 10190
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
185 folios (i+185+vi)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1725
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1725-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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 10190

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of two works, both copies of printed editions.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1r-64v
Title: תקון השלחן
Title: Tiḳun ha-shulḥan

Readings to be said before and after meals.

With introduction by Arieh Loeb ben Isaac ha-Levi.

Title page on f. 1r: ספר תיקון השלחן - קודם הסעודה ולאחר הסעודה ... נדפס בשנים קדמוניות ו... הלכו וחסרו ואינם לכן התעורר ... ליב תיאנוב במהור"ר יצחק סג"ל חתן בן ה"ה בעל טורי... סשנת ז'ה' ה'ש'ל'ח'ן' אשר לפ'ני ה'

According to the title page, this manuscript is based on the printed edition of 1725 Amsterdam, and the date given on the title page is the date of this printed edition.

Contains also Seder TaRYaG Mitsṿot and Chapter 1 of Masekhet Berakhot.

ff. 65r-112v
Title: סדר תרי"ג מצות התורה
Title: 613 Mitsṿot
ff. 113r-127v
Title: מסכת ברכת פרק א'
Title: Masekhet Berakhot Pereḳ 1
ff. 128r-185v
Title: אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
Title: Alfa-beta de-Ben Sira

Title page on f. 128r: ספר בן סירא - מהחכם המפורסם בן סירא בן ירמיהו הנביא ... ברחם אמו להכיר בוראיו כם הצגתי בתוכו במה חידות ומעשי' אשר לא נדפסו עד ...

It is also a copy of a printed edition, see the introduction f. 129v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 185 folios (i+185+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 107 × 85 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 58 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, by the scribe, starting on f. 2r.

Ff. 1v and 128v are blank (except BM stamp).

Collation

12 quires of 16 leaves. Last quire includes blank pages at the end (called flyleaves in digital surrogate).

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive (emulating printed Rashi script) and square script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

A few scribbles on front flyleaf (i)v, back flyleaf (vi)v and back pastedown.

Binding

Post-1600, cardboard covers. Boxed.

Title on front cover, partially faded away: ספר תיקון השלחן... שייך להכ"ח... לע... בק"ק ...גלהויזן

History

Origin: 1725-1899 18th-19th century (not before 1725)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription (?) on front cover: חיים ברוך...

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 42; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 July 1927.

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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