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Or 11121

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032-003417929
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Or 11121
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
171 folios (i+171+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1500-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Dhamārī, Manṣur Suleiman, scholar and philosopher, fl 15th century
Dhamārī, Manṣur Suleiman, scholar and philosopher, fl 15th century
Wanneh, Isaac ben Abraham, fl 17th century
Wanneh, Isaac ben Abraham, fl 17th century
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Or 11121

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous texts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 16th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 171 folios (i+171+ii)
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

22 quires: ifive, ii-viii8 (ff. 6-13, 14-21, 22-29, 30-37, 38-45, 46-53, 54-61), ix6-1 (ff. 62-66), x6 (ff. 67-72), xi8+1 (ff. 73-81), xii-xvii8 (ff. 82-89, 90-97, 98-105, 106-113, 114-121, 122-129), xviii10+1 (ff. 130-141), xix-xxi8 (ff. 141-148, 149-156, 157-164), xxii8-1 (ff. 165-171).

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Religious Works. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,121.'.

History

Origin: 1500-1799 16th-18th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of E. A. Morris. 13 July 1929'; date of accession 22 July 1929.

I

Contents

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-66v
Author: אלדמארי, חטר בן שלמה Dhamārī, Manṣur Suleiman, active 15th century
Title: שרח אלקועאד
Title: Sharḥ al-Qwa’id
Incipit: אלברהאן עלא וגוד אלסם אלדי הו קאבל

Colophon: יזכה הכותב יפת בן אברהם אליואני אלחמדי יצ"ו תנצב"ה f. 66v

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 66 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125/130 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires i-ix.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17 19

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 16th-17th century.

Decoration

Initial word with simple ink decoration (e.g. ff. 39v, 46v, 47r, 54v).

Additions:

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Yemen

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 67r-84v
Title: אגדות חז"ל ובאורן
Title: Agadot Ḥazal u-veuran

Incomplete at the beginning.

ff. 85r-112v
Title: אגדת אזוב
Title: Agudat ezov

F. 85r: ליקוטין מאגודת אזוב מה שמצאתי לפי שלא נמצא הכתב לנדפיס עליו והשם יעזרני לכתוב אותו ולמצוא סופו להשלימו ה' חומשי תורה.

ff. 113r-140v
Author: ונה, יצחק בן אברהם Wanneh, Isaac ben Abraham, active 17th century
Title: פעמון זהב ורמון
Title: Paʿamon zahav ṿe-rimon

At the end (f. 140v): עזור עבדך שלום בן ליפת הלוי הסגולה תחייני ביומים ספרים אכתוב לאין קיץ ואין תפלה.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 74 folios (ff. 67-140)
Dimensions (leaf): 154 × 106 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with the previous part.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 67 = f. ב.

Collation

Quires x-xviii.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 30

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 17th-18th century.

History

Origin: 1600-1899 17th-18th century Yemen

III

Contents

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 141v-171r
Title: מעשה תורה לרבינו הקדוש
Title: Maʿaśeh Torah le-Rabenu ha-ḳadosh

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 31 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

Quires xix-xxii.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Several damaged folios (fixed with silk gauze). Some of them are on guards.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 28

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 17th-18th century.

Decoration

Initial word with simple ink decoration (e.g. ff. 39v, 46v, 47r, 54v).

Additions:

F. 171v: notes on Megilat Ester.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Yemen

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11121 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), vol. IV. p. 161.

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