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Or 10373

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Or 10373
Title:
Jewish liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
155 folios (i+155)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
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
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Or 10373

Jewish liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of liturgical poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic arranged according to tunes.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-155v
Title: פיוטים מסודרים לפי לחנים
Title: Piyuṭim mesudarim lefi leḥanim

Piyutim added at the end of each tune by another hand.

Incantation on ff. 125v-129r: לחש גדול, מסוגל לקדחת ולכאב הראש ... ובשביל הפחד ולכל דבר מועיל מעיר הקדושה צפת.

Ff. 144v-151r: index.

Ff. 151v-152r and 154v-155v: additional piyuṭim.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 155 folios (i+155)
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 103 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 13r, 15v, 23v, 105v, 112v, 120v, 123r, 125r, 129v, 133v, 134r, 139v, 142v are blank.

2 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 15; 3 unfoliated blank leaves after ff. 23 and 44; 20 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 105; 14 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 112; 16 unfoliated, mostly blank leaves after f. 118; 4 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 120; 3 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 129; 4 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 133; one unfoliated blank leaves after f. 136; 4 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 139.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, dirt.

Front flyleaf is torn, only stub has been left.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive, semi-cursive and square scripts of the 18th-19th century by various hands.

Decoration

Additions:

Calculations on ff. 124ar-124av.

Binding

Brown leather binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '757 פזמונים'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions (?) by the same hand on f. 15r and f. (118n)r; note by the same hand on f. (129c)v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 757; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 December 1929.

Record Sources

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

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Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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