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Or 10531

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032-003416907
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Or 10531
Title:
Prayers and homilies
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
57 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10531 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
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
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Or 10531

Prayers and homilies

Contents

Prayers and homilies mostly on Passover.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-56v
Title: תפלות ודרושים
Title: Tefilot u-derushim

Bound before and after the book Midrash be-Hidush by Eliʿezer Nahman Foa, Venice 1641: handwritten text on ff. 1r-12v and ff. 45r-56v, printed book on 13r-44v. Some handwritten notes in the first pages of the printed section.

Includes prayers according to the kabbalah.

Among the included: for the eve of Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first day of the month Nisan) and for Passover, poems and homiletic commentaries.

Title page of printed volume on f. 13r: מדרש בחדוש פירוש להגדת פסח

F. 9r: כונת קערה ליל פסח.

F. 56v: מהרב אזולאי ז"ל.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 57 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

13 quires: i8, ii12, iii2, iv6-1, v-x4, xi4+1, xii2, xiii12.

Printed book is on ff. 12-44. Handwritten text on f. 12 which was originally the front flyleaf of the printed book. F. 44a was originally the back flyleaf of the printed volume.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, foxing, water damage.

A bit from the middle of f. 44a is cut off, perhaps in order to remove an ownership note?

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square scripts of the 18th-19th century, by several hands.

Decoration

Decorated initial words on ff. 48r and 49r.

Illustrations on ff. 3r (King David praying), 8v, 46v, 48r, 48v, 49r.

Additions:

Scribbles in Italian on pastedowns.

Binding

Post-1600, blue cardboard covers. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '987 חדשים על הגדה של פסח'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note on f. 12v, dated 5603? (1862/3?): ... הספר הזה בעזר... כ"י מחכם אחד הנקרא יאודה טאדובה מעיר בוקרישט עם ספר פירוש של אבות של הרב ... וחדושי דינים של פסח מאחר השכל ודרך אמונה בעבור ספר ... עמוקות ... ויזכני להבין דבריהם ... ולקנות ספרים אחרים ביום כ"ד לחודש אדר שנת ... הברית

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 987; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 April 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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