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Or 10720

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Or 10720
Title:
Yoman masaʿ le-Erets Yiśraʾel mi-shenat 494 by Moise Vita Cafsuto
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
62 folios (ii+62+i)
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Italian
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Start Date:
1817
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1817
Date Range:
1817
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Names:
Cafsuto, Moise Vita, fl 18th century
Cafsuto, Moise Vita, fl 18th century
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10720

Yoman masaʿ le-Erets Yiśraʾel mi-shenat 494 by Moise Vita Cafsuto

Contents

Summary of Contents: An account of the travels in the East undertaken by Moise Cassuto (Cafsuto) of Florence in the years 1733-1735.

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-62r
Author: קפסוטו, משה חיים Cafsuto, Moisè Vita, active 18th century
Title: יומן מסע לארץ ישראל משנת תצ"ד
Title: Yoman masaʿ le-Erets Yiśraʾel mi-shenat 494
Incipit: No 1 - Mi par che sia il solito D ogni viaggiante di prender un

Abridged by Salomone Orefici and completed on 20 August 1817. Copied from the original MS in the possession of Elia Cassuto.

Divided into 121 entries.

For a fuller version, see BL Add MS 19311 (Collection of Western Manuscripts). Another MS is in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ital. d. 9.

Author's colophon on f. 62r: 'Fatto il presente libro dei viaggi del Sig.r Cafsuto da me Salomone Orefici ... di 20 Ag.to 1817. Estratto dal suo originale esistente nelle mani dal Sig.r Elia Cassuto.

References

For the fascimile of Oxford, Bodleian MS Ital. d. 9, see Salzmann, Milka Cassuto and David Cassuto, eds. Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa di Moise Vita Cafsuto da Firenze 1734 estratto da un manoscritto italiano inedito. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi, 1984.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 62 folios (ii+62+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

2 quires: i56, ii6

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ff. 1r-11r written by a different hand.

Hand(s)

Latin (Italian) cursive scripts and Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century. Main scribe was Salomone Orefici.

Binding

Post-1600, black buckram binding. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1817 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 716; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 6 November 1929.

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_10720 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Cedarmas, Adonella, 'Una fonte per la storia del viaggio in Terra Santa nel Settecento: il diario di Moisè Vita Cafsuto', in: Percorsi di storia ebraica: fonti per la storia degli ebrei in Italia nell'età moderna e contemporanea : VIII centenario della morte di Maimonide: atti del XVIII convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, Gorizia, 7-9 settembre 2004 / a cura di Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini (Udine: Forum, 2005), pp. 205-219.

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