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Or 8695

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Title:
Pirḳe Avot with Ganjnamah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
164 folios (ii+164+i)
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Languages:
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Judeo-Persian
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Start Date:
1808
End Date:
1808
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1808
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
ʿEmrānī, 1454-1536
ʿEmrānī, 1454-1536
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Or 8695

Pirḳe Avot with Ganjnamah

Contents

Pirḳe Avot with Judeo-Persian translation and metrical paraphrase by Imrani.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-164v
Author: ʿEmrānī (1454-1536) עמרני
Title: גנג’ נאמה: תרגום מסכת אבות (א-ד) לפרסית
Title: Gang’ Nameh: targum masekhet Avot (1-4) le-Farsit

The Hebrew text begins on f. 10v.

The texts of Chapter V of Pirḳe Avot abd Chapter Kinyan Torah only include the translation.

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon: תמת אל כבאב כוכסתה אלהאב בעוון מליך אך והאב און פארסי מסכת אבות דר רוז כ' ש כ' אום מאה תמוז סנה התקס"ח ליצירה ... תחת רגלי סופרים ... f. 153r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Blue paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: ship? (e.g. ff. 12-13).
Extent: 164 folios (ii+164+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 168 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160/170 × 122 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 21

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Ruling in mastara(?) is visible.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the early 19th century.

Additions:

Front flyleaf (ii) is the lower half recycled marriage contract (ketubah). On its verso (used to be the recto of the ketubah) quotation from Isaiah 61:9-10 in the margins. The groom was בכשו בן כ"ז כולאד, and scribe of the ketubah was Aharon ben Pinḥas (הצעיר הכותב אהרן בן פינחס).

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Pirḳē Ābhōth with ʿImrān'i's Paraphrase. Hebrew & Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 8695.'

History

Origin: 1808

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of J. B. Yahuda 9. April 1921.'; date of accession 13 April 1921.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8695 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), vol. IV. p. 155.
    Meredith-Owens, G. M.,Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966.(London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 41.
    Asmussen, Jes Peter, Studies in Judaeo-Persian literature (Leiden: Brill, 1973), p. 104 n2.
    Moreen, Vera Basch, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal 21 (1995), p. 77 n3.
    Fihrist online catalogue (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_6422)

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