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Or 14019

Record Id:
032-003420729
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Or 14019
Title:
Register of Jewish marriages and births
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
160 folios (vi+160+iv)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14019 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1874
End Date:
1921
Date Range:
1874-1921
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Shaul ben Moses ben Aaron Lanyahdo
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14019

Register of Jewish marriages and births

Contents

Register of marriages and births from the years 1874-1921.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-160r
Title: העתקי כתובות ותעודות אחרות בק"ק כלכתא
Title: Heʿteḳe ketubot u-teʿudot aḥerot be-ḳ. ḳ. Kalkuta

Most of the ketubot come from Calcutta, Sirampur, Penang, Singapore, Moulmein and Rangoon.

Ff. 1r-4r: templates for ketubot; ff. ff. 5v-5r (from left to right!): English translation "of our kethubba"; ff. 7r-144r: copies of ketubot from the years 1874-1921.

Ff. 160r: a list of births and circumcisions held during the year 1859-1873.

Several notes and names of witnesses in English (e.g. ff. 65v, 82v).

Ff. 144v-148v: copies of certificates in English; signed by Shaul ben Moses ben Aaron Lanyahdo.

For a more detailed description of the content, see Sassoon, Ohel Dawid, pp. 990-991.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 160 folios (vi+160+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Previous pagination in pencil; page references in Ohel Dawid refer to this pagination.

Collation

Quires in guards.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 19th-20th century; in black and red ink. Scribe was Shaul ben Moses ben Aaron Lanyahdo.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 35 is a much smaller paper slip inserted into the collation.

Binding

BL in-house.

Title on spine: 'Register. Hebrew. Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 14019'.

History

Origin: 1874-1921 India (Kolkata/Calcutta)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired from the Sassoon collection, at the Sotheby's sale in New York, May 1981; lot 49. Date of accession 22 October 1981.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and on Sassoon, Ohel Dawid (1932).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14019 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 2, pp. 990-991, no. 1041.
    Important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon ... : public auction Tuesday May 12, 1981 (New York : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1981), p. 75, lot. 49.

Funding of Cataloguing

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