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Or 10454
Title:
Tiḳun ḥatsot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
13 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1829
Date Range:
1800-1829
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham Ḥai Morpurgo
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10454

Tiḳun ḥatsot

Contents

Penitential prayers said between 17 Tamuz and 9 Av.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-10r
Title: תקון חצות
Title: Tiḳun ḥatsot

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 13 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 173 × 127 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 18-5 leaves.

Catchwords mostly only on the verso side.

Condition

Usage stains, tears.

Some leaves have been cut off, only studs have remained (e.g. between ff. 3 and 4).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Number of written lines per pages varies, layout is not uniform.

Running title.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and square script of the 19th century.

Additions:

On f. 10v there are scribbles by the same hand but in two different languages: Italian ('famiglia mio nostro dand... alla dalla mia moglia'), and in German in Kurrentschrift?

F. 11r: scribbles in Italian by the same hand as the one on f. 10v: 'Io non voleva mai mangiare se non di la nostra famiglia che io mai mio dio darmi dano ... '

Ff. 12v-13v: Scribbles, calculations.

Binding

Post-1600, decorated paper covers. In a flap case.

History

Origin: 1800-1829 1st third of the 19th century (not after 1829) Italy (Gorizia?)

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 10v: 'famiglia mio nostro dandoti a me alla dalla mia moglie...'.

F. 11v: draft letter in pencil in Italian mentioning the town Gorizia: 'Carissimo figlio. Non Voglio fare meno di ... vedere miei caratteri conoscendo il ... Genio e poi per l'amore sempre avuto per voi nel mio ... costa non meno che sempre lo continuaro avere conoscendo... Queste ... Gorizia'.

F. 12r: note in ink in Italian, dated 17 Tamuz 5589 (=1829), Gorizia; beginning 'Nel giorno dei 17 di תמוז'.

Ownership inscriptions by Abraham Ḥai Morpurgo on ff. 12v-13v: אברהם חי מורפורגו, 'Abram Morpurgo'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 589; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 April 1929.

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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