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Or 12358
- Record Id:
- 032-003429055
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100065978562.0x000001
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12358
- Title:
- Miscellany
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 032-003429055
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 17 folios (ii+17+ii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12358 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Italian - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1500-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 12358
Miscellany
Contents
A collection of various works, mostly homilies in Hebrew and Italian.
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian, Italian
Physical Description
Composite paper codex of the 16th-18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 17 folios (ii+17+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 181 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Layout
Columns:1
Given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.
Hand(s)
Various scripts: mostly Italian Hebrew cursive scripts and Latin (Italian) cursive scripts, but also Italo-Ashkenazi semi-cursive script (f. 6) and Sefardi semi-cursive script (f. 1).
Binding
Post-1600, green cloth binding.
History
Origin: 1500-1799 16th-18th century ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1470; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 25 February 1932.
I
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
f. 1rTitle: אגרתTitle: IgeretIncipit: חכם כחכמתו וצדיק כאמנתו הודו ותהלתוSefardi semi-cursive script.
Colophon:History
Origin: 1700-1799 18th centuryII
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 2r-2vTitle: שירים לכבוד מאורעות שוניםTitle: Shirim li-kevod meʾoraʿot shonimAmong others includes: shir le-ḥatan Bereshit בנימין כהן צדק בכמה"ר אליעזר ז"ל מלמד לאדם במעלת ק"ק איגיו ... שנת ונ’פ’ש’י’ ת’ג’י’ל’ בה.
Italian Hebrew cursive and square script.
Colophon:History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy (Imola)III
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 3r-3vTitle: שירTitle: ShirDraft of a poem.
In the outer margin of f. 3v Italian note running parallel to the spine: 'Daniel & David ... & Almeda la arma e un lion inpiedi ... Hana del S.r David Padova'
Colophon:History
Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th centuryIV
Contents
Language(s): Italian, Hebrew
ff. 4r-5vTitle: דרשה על הצדקהTitle: Derashah ʿal hatsdaḳahIn Judeo-Italian and Hebrew.
Italian Hebrew cursive script.
Colophon:History
Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th centuryProvenance
V
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian, Italian
ff. 6r-17vTitle: דרשותTitle: DerashotIncipit: בחדש החמשי באחד לחדש f. 6rDerashot by different hands on various types of paper.
F. 11v: ששמע החכם מכהר"ר שמואל מילדולה נר"ו ... בק"ק וירונה.
In Hebrew, Italian and Judeo-Italian.
Ff. 12r-15v: many of them by Nathan Pincherle (מכהר"ר נתן פינקארלי); see La République des Lettres, p. 524.
F. 6: Italo-Ashkenazi semi-cursive script; the rest is mostly Italian Hebrew cursive scripts and Italian (Latin) cursive scripts.
Colophon:History
Origin: 1500-1899 16th-18th century ItalyAdditional Information
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_12358 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Salah, Asher, La république des lettres: rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Leiden: Brill, 2007), p. 524.Funding of Cataloguing
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