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Or 11605

Record Id:
032-003418166
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Or 11605
Title:
A commercial letter written by Ibn al-Tabib
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
Single sheet
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Languages:
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Eric Sexton
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11605

A commercial letter written by Ibn al-Tabib

Contents

Language(s): Ladino

f. 1r
Title: אגרת מסחרית
Title: Igeret misḥarit

In Ladino.

Among the signatures: [...] ן’ אלטביב". מוזכר: "משה ן’ אלטביב יצ"ו.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper leaf of the 17th century.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: Single sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Much damaged, fragmentary, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

Kept under glass.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 Ca. 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

It was found in the binding of a copy of Jacob ben Asher's Arbaʿah Turim (Constantinople, 1493) belonging to Eric Sexton (1902-1980).

Acquisition note on the back of the glass frame: 'Presented by Eric Sexton Esq. 10 Oct. 1936'; date of accession .

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 Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).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_11605 (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. 149.

Funding of Cataloguing

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