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Or 10393

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Or 10393
Title:
Liturgical poems
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
158 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Ladino
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10393

Liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of piyuṭim for various festivals.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino

ff. 1v-158r
Title: פיוטים למועדים
Title: Piyuṭim la-Moʿadim

Also includes piyuṭim for various events, among which are "piyutim of our holy cities" (פיוטים על ערי קדשינו ותפארתינו f. 124r), as well as several piyutim in Judeo-Arabic (e.g. f. 16r-16v, 38r-39v) and a piyut in Ladino (f. 46r).

Among others by Hayim Halṿa (חיים חלואה, e.g. ff. 28r, 29r), Mosheh Halṿa (משה חלואה, e.g. ff. 15v, 24v, 43v, 45r), Yaʿakov Berdugo (יעקב בירדוגו, e.g. ff. 26v, 62r, 130r), David ben Aharon ben Ḥasin (דוד בן אהרן בן חסין, e.g. ff. 6v, 93v, 107v, 128r), and Avraham Ankawa (אברהם אנקווא, e.g. ff. 5r, 12v).

Index on ff. 150v-158r.

Deletions, often of entire paragraphs (ff. 14r, 25v, 51v, 72r-72v).

The original MS starts on f. 4r: אתחיל לכתוב פיוטים של פסח בעזרת אדום וצח; and it ends on f. 133v: תם ונשלם שבח לאל בורא עולם, listing all the occasions and festival the copied piyuṭim linked to.

Colophon: ע"ה יצחק בן יעיש הלוי f. 127v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 158 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Condition

Some leaves have been mutilated (ff. 13, 14).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Judeo-Arabic in square script.

F. 91v written in two columns.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) Hebrew cursive and square scripts of the 18th-19th century.

The main scribe, Yitḥaḳ ben Yaʿish ha-Leṿi, he signed his name on ff. 23v, 87v, 127v.

The index at the end of the manuscripts, and numerous leaves inside the collation were supplied by a second hand, also in Oriental (North African) Hebrew cursive script, in a lighter brown ink (e.g. ff. 1-3, 133-158).

Decoration

Simple ink decorations by the scribe (e.g. ff. 123v, 126r, 127v).

Additions:

Calculations on f. 1r.

Binding

Post-1600, quarter-bound, with printed paper covers. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1416 פיוטים'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1416; 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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