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Or 9909

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032-003440916
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Or 9909
Title:
Italian Jewish Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
59 folios (i+59+i+47+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9909 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9909

Italian Jewish Miscellany

Contents

Italian translation of Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, and Megilat Antiochus and ethical treatises.

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-8r
Title: שיר השירים
Title: Shir ha-Shirim

Colophon:
ff. 8v-14v
Title: רות
Title: Rut

Colophon:
ff. 15r-29r
Title: מגילת אסתר
Title: Megilat Ester

Colophon:
ff. 29v-36v
Title: Discorsi morali circa la nobilitá del sesso feminile con prove del Sacro Testo
Incipit: אשת חיל עטרת בעלה f. 31r

Colophon:
ff. 37r-42r
Title: מגילת אנטיוכוס
Title: Megilat Anṭiokhos
Incipit: ענין של חנוכה שעשה יי לנו נס ופלא f. 37r

Colophon:
ff. 43r-47v
Title: Compendio morale alusivo
Incipit: di giorni festivi divoti che s'atrovano di mese in mese con alcuni treviali ragioni f. 37r

Colophon:
ff. 48r-50v
Title: Detti Sententiosi di varii filosofi morali utili ad ogni curios lettore come seque
Incipit: Incontrando Diogene n'una squadra di maledicenti... f. 49r

Colophon:
ff. 51r-59r
Title: משלי (א-ח)
Title: Mishle (1-8)
Incipit: Esempi di Selomo figliuolo di David Re de Israel... f. 49r

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 59 folios (i+59+i+47+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 141 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Two works are bound together: Or 9909 containing 59 folios and Or 9910 containing 47 folios.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Bound together with Or 9910.

Condition

Usage stains.

Iron gall ink corrosion; several leaves have been repaired.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Latin (Italian) cursive script and Hebrew square script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Decorated initial words.

Pen and ink decrations at the end of the books (ff. 8r, 14v, 29v, 36v, 42r, 47v).

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Song of Songs. Ruth, Esther, &c. Italian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9909. 9910.

Bound together with Or 9910.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 682; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 May 1928.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9909 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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