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Or 10774
Title:
Sipur Daṿid
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
68 folios (ii+68+ii)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
ʿEmrānī, 1454-1536
ʿEmrānī, 1454-1536
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Or 10774

Sipur Daṿid

Contents

Epic poems on the story of David.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-68v
Author: ʿEmrānī (1454-1536)
Title: ספור דוד
Title: Sipur Daṿid

Apparently part of the Fatḥnāmeh, the metrical paraphrase of the Biblical books from Joshua to Kings by ʿImrāni.

Incomplete

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Brownish paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: crowned medallion with a belt around it and with the letters 'F.R.Z.'underneath; inside the medallion within a shield there is a bird(?) and 3 stars underneath (e.g. ff. 32, 56, 57), countermark: F. A. DAVUR BOMBAY (e.g. ff. 10, 11, 22).
Extent: 68 folios (ii+68+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword/catch phrase on almost every page.

Condition

Very fragile, brittle leaves; collation is falling apart.

F. 1 is very damaged; loss of text.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '781 דוד נאמה - פרס'.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 781; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 10 March 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10774 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Fihrist online catalogue (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_5190)
    Meredith-Owens, G. M.,Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966.(London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 44.

Funding of Cataloguing

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