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Or 10165

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032-003424846
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Or 10165
Title:
A compilation of prayers.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
12 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10165 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10165

A compilation of prayers.

Contents

A compilation of prayers, handwritten and printed.

Language(s): Hebrew, English

ff. 1r-12v
Title: ברכות ארוסין ונישואין
Title: Birkhot erusin ṿe-niśuʼin

Ff. 1-4: handwritten folios; ff. 5-12: leaves from various printed volumes.

Printed leaves: סדר פידון הבן (ff. 5-6), Grace after meal in English and Hebrew (ff. 10-11), קריאת שמע על המטה (f. 12).

Ff. 7v-9v seem to be printer's waste.

F. 4v: supplements of הרחמן (ha-Raḥaman) to the blessing upon nourishment which is recited after a circumcision, added in another hand.

Handwritten text is only in Hebrew, printed extracts are in Hebrew and in English.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Various leaves of paper.
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 2v, 6v are blank.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are the dimensions of the parchment leaves.

Some of the printed leaves are larger than the rest of the volume and are folded (ff.5, 6, 9, 10).

Parchment folios: ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and semi-cursive script (emulation of Rashi script) of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, black leather binding, gold-tooled. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Handwritten ownership inscription (?) on back pastedown but a paper slip with printed text has been glued over most of it. Printed text contains traditional wedding vows of Ferdinand Sliz and Alexandra Falk.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1410; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 10 February 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10165 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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