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Or 10642

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Or 10642
Title:
Sefer goralot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
19 folios (i+19+i)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1841
End Date:
1842
Date Range:
1841-1842
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ephraim ben Joseph
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Or 10642

Sefer goralot

Contents

A tract on casting of lots.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-19r
Author: סעדיה בן יוסף, אלפיומי Saʿadia ben Joseph, 882-942
Title: ספר גורלות
Title: Sefer goralot
Explicit: סליק ספר גורלות

F. 1r is the title page.

Colophon: נכתב ונגמר ממני הק' אפרים ...בן יוסף סופר סתם בק"ק העסיגען(?) ... בשנת תר"ב(?) לפ"ק f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 19 folios (i+19+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

2 quires: i12, ii6. F 7. is a smaller leaf glued onto f. 6v.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century. Scribe: Ephraim ben Joseph.

Binding

Post-1600.

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

History

Origin: 1841-1842 Germany (Hessigheim?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 592; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 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).

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