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Or 10506
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- Sod ha-sodot by Aristotle (in Hebrew)
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 35 folios (no flyleaves)
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Yiddish - Scripts:
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- Start Date:
- 1901
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- 1901
- Date Range:
- 1901
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10506
Sod ha-sodot by Aristotle (in Hebrew)
Contents
Philosophical treatise.
Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish
ff. 1r-35vTitle: סוד הסודותTitle: Sod ha-sodotTitle page on f. 1r: ספר סוד הסודות לאריסטוטלוס אל המלך הגדול אלסכנדר... . Corrections are written under the title: אריסטוטוליס אל המלך הגדול אלכסנדר.
Modern copy of Oxford Bodleian MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 9 (Neubauer 1436); and Oxford Bodleian MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 121 (Neubauer 2386).
F. 35: letter by Isaac Last in Hebrew and in Yiddish.
Colophon: העתקתיו והגהתיו משני כ"י הנמצאים פה אקספרד קובץ 1436 וקובץ 2386 - אני יצחק בן יוסף הלוי לאסט אקספדר בחודש סיון שנת ל'ה'י'ש'ר'ם' ס'ו'ד'ו' לפ"ק f. 1rColophon: השלמתי העתקה הזאת י"ד תמוז התרס"א - יצחק בן יוסף הלוי לאסט f. 31vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 20th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Pre-lines notebook.Extent: 35 folios (no flyleaves)Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 161 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel pagination in ink by the scribe.
Collation
A quire of 32 leaves.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 20
Written lines: 19
Wider inner margin for notes.
Hand(s)
Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 19th-20th century. Copied by Isaac Last (1847-1913).
Binding
Post-1600; marble paper covers. On the back cover label: 'The Imperial Exercise Book'. In flap case.
Accompanying Material
Ff. 33-34 is a smaller bifolio glued at the end of the collation; f. 35 is a much larger page from a notebook fixed at the back of f. 34.
History
Origin: 1901 England (Oxford)Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 524; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 April 1929.
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_10506 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
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