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Or 12361

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032-003417029
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Or 12361
Title:
Notes, letters by Avraham Matityah Tsurmani
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
83 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12361 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Tsurmani, Avraham Matityah
צורמאני, אברהם מתתיה
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12361

Notes, letters by Avraham Matityah Tsurmani

Contents

Notes and letters.

Language(s): Hebrew, Ladino

ff. 1r-83v
Author: צורמאני, אברהם מתתיה Tsurmani, Avraham Matityah
Title: פנקס מכתבים
Title: Pinḳas mikhtavim

Title page has been cut out, but its imprint is visible on f. 1v.

Avraham Matityah Tsurmani was the Av Bet Din of Bucharest.

Autograph. Cf. London BL Or 9984 and Or 10265.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 83 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 136 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Numerous unfoliated blank leaves after f. 74.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Additions:

Ff. 75v-82v: calculations.

Note in Ladino on f. 1r.

Binding

Post-1600, half-bound, with printed paper covers.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 483; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 August 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12361 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. p. 151.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL