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Or 9984

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Or 9984
Title:
Derushim ṿe-ḥidushim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
160 folios (i+160+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Tsurmani, Avraham Matityah
צורמאני, אברהם מתתיה
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Or 9984

Derushim ṿe-ḥidushim

Contents

Homilies and novellae on biblical verses and on Shulhan Arukh, Mishneh Torah etc.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-159v
Author: צורמאני, אברהם מתתיה Tsurmani, Avraham Matityah
Title: דרושים וחדושים
Title: Derushim ṿe-ḥidushim

The author's signature appears on f. 159r; cf. London, BL, Or 10265.

Reference to the year 5609 (1848/9) on f. 123r: חדשתי ביום ש"ק של יאר צייט של מ"א ... בשנת ה’תר"ט ("I wrote novellae in the holy Sabbath of my teacher-father yahrzeit in the year 609").

Avraham Matityah Tsurmani was the Av Bet Din of Bucharest.

Autograph. Cf. London BL Or 10265 and Or 12361.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 160 folios (i+160+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 117 × 71 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Some blank leaves and pages in the collation.

Collation

Catchword on some of the pages.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Running title.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Pencil and ink drawings on ff. 1v-2r, 3r and 6r.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, black leather binding, blind-tooled.

Title on spine: 'Homilies and Novellae. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9984.'

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 467; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 July 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).

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Surrogates

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