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Or 10092

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Or 10092

Title:

Halakhical miscellany on ritual slaughter

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

60 folios (ii+90+i)

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Languages:

Hebrew
Italian
Yiddish

Scripts:

Hebrew
Latin

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

1700-1899

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Abraham Rafael ben Gabriel Finzi
Gabriel ben Abraham Rafael Finzi
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939

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Or 10092

Halakhical miscellany on ritual slaughter

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th-19th century.

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support:

Extent: 60 folios (ii+90+i)

Binding

BM in-house, green buckram binding.

Title on spine: 'Tracts on Sheḥiṭāh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,092.'

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription (?) on f. 25r: 'Johanne ... Hornburg'.

Ownership inscription in Yiddish by Reuben of Wolfenbüttel and Tseṿi Yehudah of Hornburg on f. 25v: דיזעס שחיטה בוך האב' איך פאן הערר רובען אויס וואלפענביטטעל בעקממען יום א' אב צבי יהודה אויס הארנבורג געשריבען יום ו' אב תר?ד לפ"ק.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 114, 478, 486; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 August 1928.

I

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-7r

Title: דיני שחיטות

Title: Dine sheḥiṭot

Gaster 114.

ff. 7v-21r

Title: דיני בדיקות

Title: Dine bediḳot

ff. 21v-26v

Title: Various notes on halakhical issues regarding ritual slaughter

Incipit: בספר גבח שמואל מביא דין זה

Colophon: צבי יהודה אויס הארנבורג געשריבען יום ו' א"ב תרצד לפ"ק f. 26v

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark.

Extent: 26 folios (ff. 1-26)

Dimensions (leaf): 158 × 98 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 23v and 24r are blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after f. 23 and after f. 25.

Collation

Leaves, bifolios are on guards.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ff. 2v-21r: running title.

Number of written lines per page varies.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script and cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Ff. 25r, 25v, 26r, 26v: scribbles in Kurrentschrift; ff. 25v, 26v: scribbles in Yiddish and in Hebrew; 25av: doodles.

History

Origin: 1833-1834

Provenance

Ownership inscription by Johanne on f. 25r: 'Johanne ... Hornburg' (f. 25r); 'Johanne ...man Shwabe in Hornburg 1832' (front flyleaf (i)v).

Ownership inscription in Yiddish on f. 25v: דיזעס שחיטה בוך האב' איך פאן הערר רובען אויס וואלפענביטטעל בעקממען יום א' אב. Ownership inscription in German Kurrentschrift on front flyleaf (i)v: 'R. Reuben ...'.

II

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 27r-44v

Title: הלכות שחיטה

Title: Hilkhot sheḥiṭah

Gaster 478.

Ff. 44r-44v: license to perform ritual slaughter, issued for Abraham Rafael ben Gabriel Finzi, dated Ferrara 17 Tamuz 5573 (1813)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark.

Extent: 18 folios (ff. 27-44)

Dimensions (leaf): 144 × 104 mm.

Dimensions (written): 105 × 70 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink starting on f. 28r.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, dirt.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Ruling in pencil and pricking are visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script and cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1813 Italy (Ferrara)

Provenance

Ownership inscriptions by Abraham Rafael ben Gabriel Finzi: אברהם רפאל ב"ר פינצי ... (f. 27r); זאת הלכות שחיטה היא שלי אברהם רפאל בר גבריאל פינזי יצ"ו (f. 28r); and by Gabriel ben Abraham Rafael Finzi: גבריאל ב"ר אברהם רפאל פינזי (f. 27r).

Italian note on f. 45v: 'Questo libro chi la cata sia savio o sia matto tosto tosto al mio piacere lo venda e danari della sua borscia spenda come fece io quando lo volso lo pagai e poi lo tolso '.

Ownership inscriptions by Yishmael Ḥayyim Beer on ff. 45v and 46v: ישמעאל חיים באר.

Ownership note by Avraham ben Mordekhai Matitiah Beer on f. 46r with the owner's name crossed out: ... אני ראיתי אנשי מדות שקונים ספרים בלי מעות רק בחמשה אצבעות לכן חתמתי עליו שמי כדי שלא יבא אחד מן השוק ויעשה לי צוק ואני נותן לו פוק - אברהם בכ"ר מרדכי מתתיה באר.

III

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 47v-54v

Title: דיני שחיטה בקצור

Title: Dine sheḥiṭah be-ḳitsur

Gaster 486.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.

Extent: 8 folios (ff. 47-54)

Dimensions (leaf): 125 × 99 mm.

Dimensions (written): 97 × 72 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves and bifolios are in guards.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10 12

Written lines: 10 12

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

IV

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 55r-60v

Title: דיני שחיטה על דרך שאלות ותשובות

Title: Dine sheḥiṭah ʿal derekh sheʾelot u-teshuvot

Regarding ritual slaughter. Short questions followed by very brief answers.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support:

Extent: 6 folios (ff. 55-60)

Dimensions (leaf): 125 × 100 mm.

Dimensions (written): 102 × 80 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves and bifolios are in guards.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Hand(s)

Hebrew square script of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

Ownership inscription on f. 60v: משה יהדה מעיר(?).

Additional 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10092 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Salah, Asher, Le république des lettres: rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Leiden: Brill, 2007), p. 520, no. 789.

Or 10092

Halakhical miscellany on ritual slaughter

Contents

Physical Description

Binding

History

Provenance and Acquisition

I

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

II

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

Decoration

History

Provenance

III

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

Decoration

History

Provenance

IV

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Availability

Surrogates

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing