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Or 10664

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Or 10664
Title:
Ezer ha-dat (modern transcript)
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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:
279 folios (i+279+i)
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1875
End Date:
1924
Date Range:
1875-1924
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
Polgar, Isaac, fl 14th century
Polgar, Isaac, fl 14th century
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Or 10664

Ezer ha-dat (modern transcript)

Contents

Summary of Contents: A polemical work against apostates, infidels, sceptics, Christians and astrologers; a modern transcript of an earlier manuscript.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-279r
Author: פולקר, יצחק בן יוסף אבן Polgar, Isaac, active 14th century
Title: עזר הדת
Title: ʻEzer ha-dat

Title on f. 1r: עזר הדת לר' יצחק פולקקר; on the of the same page added: 'Cod. Montefiore No. 94 ol. Halberstamm)'.

A copy from an earlier manuscript from the Montefiore collection (Hirschfeld catalogue no. 285, Halberstamm No. 94).

Colophon:

References

Hirschfeld, Hartwig, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904), p. 90.

Physical Description

Paper codex approximately of the 19th-20th century.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support: Pre-ruled paper.
Extent: 279 folios (i+279+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 162 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Text block is detached from binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Text is only on the recto sides.

Wider outer margins for notes.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square script of the late 19th-early 20th century. Copied by Moses Gaster.

Binding

Post-1600, black buckram binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '534 עזר הדת'.

History

Origin: 1875-1924 Late 19th-early 20th century (not after 1924) England

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 534; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 April 1929.

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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