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Or 10150

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Or 10150
Title:
Pizmonim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
48 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Eliʿezer Shalom
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Refaʾel Yisraʾel Hili
Salamon di Moise Forto di Senigalia
Yehudah Corcos
Yitsḥaḳ Berahiah of Fano
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Or 10150

Pizmonim

Contents

A collection of liturgical compositions for various occasions.

Language(s): Hebrew, Ladino, Italian

ff. 1r-48v
Title: פיוטים לשבת, למועדים ולהזדמנויות שונות
Title: Piyuṭim le-Shabat, le-Moʿadim ule-hizdamnuyot shonot

Compositions among others by Rabbi Refaʾel Yisraʾel Hili (f. 8v), Eliʿezer Shalom (f. 10r), Yehudah Corcos (f. 42r), and Yitsḥaḳ Berahiah of Fano (f. 42r).

F. 19r: an excerpt from a piyut for Shavuʿot in Ladino; f. 47r: in Italian in Latin script.

F. 42r: a honorific poem and in the lower margins: כל הגדולות האלה נתן ר’ יהודא קורקוס לחכם ... הרב יצחק ברכיה מפאנו נר"ו.

On f. 42v: תפלה זו טוב לאמרה קודם הדירוש כשרוצה לדרוש ברבים.

F. 44r: סדר פדיון הנפש לחלה.

F. 46v: an index of some of the piyutim.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: anchor in circle with star on top (e.g. ff. 32, 37, 38).
Extent: 48 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 115 × 86 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Numerous unfoliated blank leaves in the collation.

Collation

Mostly quires of 8 leaves. No catchwords.

Lacuna after f. 4, according to Hebrew foliation one leaf is missing; lacuna after f. 22, according to Hebrew foliation one leaf is missing; lacuna after f. 32, according to Hebrew foliation two leaves are missing;

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Collation is falling apart.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are in larger characters, often in square script.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square scripts of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'פזמונים 480'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions by Salamon di Moise Forto di Senigalia: '...Sig. Salamon di Moise Forto di Senigalia...' (f. 47v), 'Questo libro e del Sig. Salamon Moise Forti di Sinigaglia...'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 480; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 1 August 1928.

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_10150 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. p. 143.

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