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Or 14594
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- Or 14594
- Title:
- Miscellany of Hebrew and Judeo-Persian works
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 128 folios (iii+128)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14594 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Persian - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1903
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 1903
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 14594
Miscellany of Hebrew and Judeo-Persian works
Contents
A collection of Hebrew and Judeo-Persian poetical works.
Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew
ff. 1r-7rTitle: מסוה נתן על פניוTitle: Masveh natan ʿal panav...Incipit: שירה מאמר ה"ה המאור הגאוןIn Hebrew.
F. 1r: סימן אני משה בן יצחק ושמו חתום בראשו.
Colophon:ff. 8v-22vTitle: בקשהTitle: BaḳashahIncipit: אתחיל לכתוב בקשה למושה על סימןAlternating Hebrew and Judeo-Persian strophes.
Colophon:ff. 23r-35vTitle: בקשהTitle: BaḳashahExplicit: בקשה אחר למוצאי שקIn Hebrew.
Colophon:ff. 36r-37vTitle: פיוטTitle: PiyuṭIncipit: פיוט ליל למושהIn Aramaic.
Colophon:ff. 38v-47rTitle: בקשותTitle: BaḳashotIncipit: בקשה אחר למוצאי שק' ר"ת שמואל בר ניפי(?)In Hebrew.
Colophon:ff. 48v-67rTitle: PoemsIncipit: תסביח וצלואת וצף אלאהי...In Judeo-Persian.
Colophon:ff. 74v-112rTitle: כתאב אנטיוכוסTitle: Kitāb AnṭiokhusIncipit: בס"ד - בס"ט - אין כתאב אנטיוכוס מאמר זעירא רפאל מלמד הכהן ס"טApparently a copy of the Judeo-Persian version of the Hasmonean story, better known as Antiokhus-nāmah, by the eighteenth-century poet Joseph ben Isaac ben Mūsā (active in the 18th century).
Colophon:ff. 112v-128rTitle:Title:Piyuṭ in honour of Purim in alternating Hebrew and Judeo-Persian strophes.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the early 20th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 128 folios (iii+128)Dimensions (leaf): 95 × 84 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
In the printed catalogues, the number of folios is given as 132, because they included the first three blank leaves (that would add up to 131 leaves), and most probably miscalculated the number of leaves.
Ff. 7v-8r, 38r, 47v-48v, and 67v-74r are blank.
Collation
Condition
Fragile leaves.
Usage stains, water damage, worm damage, ink stains.
F. 65A is only a stud, the rest of the leaf has been torn out.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 10
Written lines: 10
Ff. 74v-128r: ruling in hard point is visible.
Hand(s)
Persian Hebrew square scripts of the early 20th century. Ff. 74v-128r are copied by Raphael Melamed ha-Kohen for Elijah ben ha-Mulā ʿUsā(?).
Binding
Post-1600, quarter-bound, with cardboard covers. Boxed.
Front and back pastedowns are printer's waste (pages from a printed edition of the Book of Psalms in Hebrew).
History
Origin: 1903 Central Asia(?)Provenance and Acquisition
Acquired around 1990.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14594 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Moreen, Vera Basch, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal. 21 (1995), p. 75.Waley, M. I., Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998 (London, 1998), p. 64.Fihrist Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_5694)Funding of Cataloguing
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