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Or 12336

Record Id:
032-003433712
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Or 12336
Title:
Miscellaneous leaves from various codices
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
25 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12336 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Italian
Romanian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Belais, Abraham, 1773-1853,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109199288,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82610967
Belais, Abraham, 1773-1853,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109199288,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82610967
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12336

Miscellaneous leaves from various codices

Contents

A collection of fragments of liturgical, halakhical, kabbalistic works, etc..

Language(s): Hebrew, ro, English, Italian

ff. 1r-3v
Title: דברי ימי רומי העתיקה
Title: Divre yeme Romi ha-ʿatiḳah
Incipit: ספור מעשה

Contains sections 55-80. Text runs from f. 3v to f. 1r.

In Italian Hebrew cursive script. Perhaps autograph.

On f. 3r: 'Leon Salvador'; 'Provo la penna Leon', and simliar pen trials.

It is the opening of a bifolio.

Colophon:
ff. 4r-4v
Title: תפלה
Title: Tefilah

With folding lines.

Colophon:
ff. 5r-5v
Title: מגלת ראמאן
Title: Megilat Roman
Incipit: העתקה אות באות מהמגלה מראמאן

The original is dated 22 Ḥeshṿan 5492 (1731 CE) and signed by Ṿolf ha-Magid av bet din of Roman (town in Romania). The copist copied the stamps as well, and one of has the date 5541 (1780/1).

Ashkenazi cursive script.

Colophon:
f. 6r
Author: בלעיש, אברהם בן שלום Belais, Abraham, 1773-1853
Title: שיר שבח
Title: Shir shevaḥ

Hebrew square script.

With folding lines.

Colophon:
ff. 7r-11v
Language(s): English, Hebrew, Italian
Title: List of foodstuff to eat on Rosh ha-Shanah

Name of each foodstuff and the blessing to be recited

Ff. 7-9 and 11: in English and in Hebrew. F. 10: different hand, different paper; the names are added in Hebrew and also English or Italian.

Colophon:
f. 12r
Title: Copy of a ketubah from the Archives of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Date of the marriage contract is dated London, 9 Ṭevet 5454 (1694). The bridegroom is Simson Abudente (הכביר ה"ר שמשון בן ה"א ה"ש הישיש כבוד ר' משה אבודיינטי ז"ל), and the bride is Raḥel bat Abraham di Porto(?) (למרת רחל בת הגביר אברהם די פורטו). Signatures by Isaque I. Henriques, Simson Abudiente, Abraham Henriques de ...(the latter surname is hard to decipher due to a later correction).

Colophon:
f. 13r
Title: ברכות לעולה לקריאת התורה
Title: Berakhot le-ʿoleh le-ḳeriʾat ha-Torah
Incipit: תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהילת יעקב

Hebrew square script; vocalised.

Colophon:
f. 14r
Title: זכרון עדות בפני ב"ד בעיר האגנוי
Title: Zikharon ʿedut bi-fene b.d. be-ʿir Hagenoi

On the verso side (called f. 15 in the digital surrogate): שטר... למרת שרלה אשת מו"ה יעקב שווייך ... מן אבי' ... שמואל אב"ד ...

Document dated 5512 in Haguenau (France).

Ashkenazi cursive script.

Colophon:
ff. 16r-17v
Title: חבור בקבלת האר"י
Title: Ḥibur be-ḳabalat ha-ʾAri

Two fragments, both are very damaged, perhaps have been found in binding.

Ashkenazi cursive script.

Colophon:
ff. 18r-20v
Title: List of words paired with biblical quotations

F. 20 is the title page of a printed book, to which ff. 18-19 used to be attached.

Colophon:
f. 21v
Title: List of books

Colophon:
f. 22r
Title: תחינה
Title: Teḥinah
Incipit: מזמורי תהילים שיאמרו קודם יהי רצון ...

Ashkenazi cursive script.

With folding lines.

Colophon:
ff. 23v-24v
Title: שיר
Title: Shir

Direction of the text: page. 24, 23. Text in three columns, in 16 verses.

With folding lines.

Colophon:
ff. 25r-26r
Language(s): Hebrew, ro
Title: תקנות קהלת פיאטרא
Title: Taḳanot Ḳehilat Piaṭra

At the beginning note in Romanian in Latin script: '(Preserviere) Traducere Pinkesului orasului Piatra de Joseph Kaufmann Dlui. Dr. Elias Schwarztfeld.

In Ashkenazi cursive script.

It is the opening of a bifolio.

Colophon: נשלם יום רביעי לסדר לאלה המשפטים אשר תשים לפניהם שנש... אם בגפא יבא בגפו יצא לחפשי תום לפ"ק

Physical Description

Fragments of paper leaves of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types and sizes of paper leaves.
Extent: 25 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 410 × 495 mm.
Foliation:

Folio numbers are inserted into the melinex sheets. Inconsistent foliation/pagination: f. 15 is the verso side of f. 14; f. 24 is the verso side of f. 23.

In the digital surrogate the folio numbers correspond to the melinex sheets not the individual fragments.

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the melinex sheets.

Hand(s)

Various Hebrew scripts of the 18th-19th century.

Binding

Melinex sheets bound in a large light blue postbinder. Remains of original flyleaves are in the very last unfoliated melinex sheet.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 412, 1222; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 17 December 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12336 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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