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Or 12332

Record Id:
032-003429777
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Or 12332
Title:
Miscellaneous documents
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
19 folios (i+19+ii)
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1924
Date Range:
1800-1924
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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 12332

Miscellaneous documents

Contents

A collection of documents.

Language(s): Hebrew, English

ff. 1r-19v
Title: אגרות ותעודות
Title: Igrot u-teʿudot

Among others includes: letters and kol kore (a proclamation) from the communities of Urmia and Shushan from the years 5661-5666 (from 1900 to 1906) (ff. 2r-9r); a shṭar (legal document) from Saloniki in the year 5473 (in 1712/3) (f. 10); letters to the emissaries Avraham Hay Shaki, Safed 5651 (in 1890/1) and Mosheh Sozi, Tiberius 5570 (in 1809/10),Mosheh Bakhar Hamon, Tunisia 5563 (in 1802/03), supplemented with a recommendation by Refaʿel Yisha’ayah Azulay (ff. 11r-13r); a court document signed by the members of the court of Tetouan, from the year 5517 (in 1756/57) (f.14); a poem in honour of Shelomoh Abikatzitz, Mosheh Pardo and Yerushalem (ff. 15-16), rabbinical ordination letter to Yitsḥaḳ Almoznino bar Hasdai by the heads of the community of Gibraltar in 5519 (in 1758/59) (f. 18r); and two letters by מבי"ן טו"ב from the year 5625 (in 1864/5) (f. 19).

Sefardi calligraphic signatures.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types of paper leaves.
Extent: 19 folios (i+19+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 345 × 210 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Unfoliated blank leaf after ff. 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 18.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Size of the leaves varies; given dimensions are those of the largest leaf.

F. 2r is upside down.

F. 8 is a printed leaf.

Hand(s)

Hebrew cursive, semi-cursive and square scripts of the 19th-20th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. In flap case.

History

Origin: 1800-1924 19th - early 20th century (not after 1924)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1221; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 17 December 1931.

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_12332 (digital images currently unavailable)

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