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Or 10710
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- Or 10710
- Title:
- Jewish liturgical poems
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 79 folios (i+79+iii)
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- Languages:
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Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1700-1899
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10710
Jewish liturgical poems
Contents
A collection of liturgical poems.
Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 2r-78vTitle: פיוטים מאת פייטנים מצפון אפריקהTitle: Piyuṭim me-et paiṭanim mi-Tsefon AfriḳahNumerous poems by the Moroccan poet David ben Aharon Ḥassin (e.g. ff. 10r, 12r, 15v, 22r, 26v, 52v); poems also among others by Yaʿaḳov ibn Tsur (e.g. f. 16v), Mosheh Edoʾan (e.g. f. 17v), Avraham Alʿudo (e.g. f. 45v), Masʿud Ibn Yosef (e.g. f. 53r), Ya’akov bar Yekutiʾel (e.g. ff. 69v, 72v), Yehoshuʿa Serero (e.g. f. 70r), Shalom Sasportas (e.g. f. 74v, 75v), etc.
F. 74v: שירים יסדתים וכוננתים אשר שמעתי מבני אדם שבאו מארץ מרחק ... שנגלה משיח צדקנו שיגלה במהרה בימינו.
With a few piyutim in Arabic (52r, 63r, etc.).
Ff. 77v-79r: excerpt from a homily for the Sabbath of the bride.
Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 79 folios (i+79+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 199 × 148 mm.Dimensions (written): 150 × 120 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 1 = f. ט; which shows that at least 8 leaves are missing from the beginning.
Collation
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.
Some leaves are torn with loss of text (e.g. ff. 9, 47, 79).
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 28
Written lines: 28
Uniform layout.
Section headings are in larger, square script.
Hand(s)
Oriental (North African) Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century.
Decoration
Very simple ink decorations around initial words (e.g. ff. 7v, 8r, 17r); decorated initial-word panel in ink (f. 22r).
Additions:Ff. 1r-1v: additions by different hands.
Binding
Post-1600, blue cloth binding. Original leather covers are now attached to the end of the collation, and in the digital surrogate they are called back flyleaves (i)-(ii).
M. Gaster's label on spine: '934 פיוטים וזמירות'.
Accompanying Material
History
Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century North Africa(?)Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscription on f. 1r: יעקב דאנינוץ
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 934; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 April 1930.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10710 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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