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Or 11120

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032-003418087
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Or 11120
Title:
Rabbinical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
172 folios (ii+172+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1670
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1670-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34806748
Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34806748
Ibn Zabara, Joseph ben Meir, fl 12th century
Ibn Zabara, Joseph ben Meir, fl 12th century
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Or 11120

Rabbinical miscellany

Contents

A collection of rabbinical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-88r
Title: פרקי ר’ אליעזר
Title: Pirḳe R. ʾEliʿezer
Incipit: שבמזרח הוא יוצא וכנגדן במערב הוא

David Goldstein: "The first letter - aleph - of the date was deleted later in an attempt to convey the impression that the MS was a thousand years older that it really is."; see a copy of David Goldstein's letter to Hans Jacob Haag in 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 Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

Incomplete at the beginning; begins int he middle of chapter 6.

Some lacunae in the text (e.g. after f. 5).

Colophon: סליק פרקי ר' אליעזר בן הורקנוס זצ"ל בעזרת שדי ב"ה והן שלשה וחמשים פרקים ... לירח סיון שנת תתקפ"ד שנין לשטארי במתא רדאע ... ספרא חלשא ... שלמה בן סעדיה בא"מ שלמה בן סעדיא f. 88r

References

Börner-Klein, Dagmar. Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser: Nach der Edition Venedig 1544 unter Berücksichtigung der Edition Warschau 1852. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2004), p. XVII.
ff. 88v-106r
Title: מעשיות ואגדות חז"ל
Title: Maʿaśiyot ṿe-agadot Ḥazal
Incipit: בשם יי אל עולם

Colophon:
ff. 106v-125v
Title: אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
Title: ʾAlfaʾ betaʾ de-Ben Siraʾ

Colophon:
ff. 125v-130r
Title: משלים
Title: Meshalim
Colophon:
ff. 130r-136v
Title: מעשיות ואגדות חז"ל
Title: Maʿaśiyot ṿe-agadot Ḥazal
Incipit: מעשה בעוקבא בירב אדא שהיה במדינת ארם

Colophon:
ff. 137r-150r
Author: זברה, יוסף בן מאיר אבן Ibn Zabara, Joseph ben Meir, 1140?-
Title: שלש הלצות
Title: Shalosh halatsot
Incipit: השם כל רע ולא רעות אשה רעה רקב עצמות מה

Order of the chapters is not the same as in the printed edition of 1904. MS begins with the third satire (p. 26 of printed edition).

Colophon:

References

שלש הלצות ... לרק יוסף זבארה מאת ד"ר ישראל דאווידזאן. נויארק, תרס"ד.
http://pre-project.usc.edu/agendas.html
ff. 150v-152v
Title: שאלות ותשובות
Title: Sheʾelot u-teshuvot
Incipit: אתחיל לכתוב שאלות ותשובות ותושבחות

Colophon:
ff. 152v-157v
Title: מעשיות ואגדות חז"ל
Title: Maʿaśiyot ṿe-agadot Ḥazal

Colophon:
ff. 157v-168v
Title: מעשה של ירושלמי
Title: Maʿaśeh shel Yeushalmi

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 172 folios (ii+172+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 145 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 117 × 78 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink (most of them are missing due to damage to the margins of the leaves).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, dirt.

Edges of the leaves are damaged; leaves are mounted.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Ruling is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 169-170: parchment fragment from Hilkhot ha-Rif (Shabat 22) by Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi. Ff. 169r and 170r are blank.

Ff. 171-172: fragment from paper Torah manuscript (Deut. 4:26-34; 4: 47-5:1.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Pirḳ de R. Eliʿezer, &c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,120.'.

History

Origin: 1670-1699 Last third of the 17th century (not before 1670) Yemen (Ridāʿ)

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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_11120 (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.

Funding of Cataloguing

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