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Or 10869

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032-003441402
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Or 10869
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
103 folios (i+103+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10869 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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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
Mordekhai ibn Ḳiḳi Avirgail
Pinṭo, Avraham
פינטו, אברהם
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Or 10869

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of halakhical, ethical, medical and mystical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 103 folios (i+103+i)

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1095 חידושים על או"ח - תקנ', שטרות וכו''.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1095; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 November 1931.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-53r
Title: טעמי הלכות שלחן ערוך ארח חיים
Title: Ṭaʿame Hilkhot Shulḥan ʿarukh Oraḥ ḥayim

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

F. 23v:תמו טעמי הלכות לולב וגם של ראש השנה ושל יום הכיפורים ושל סוכות ואתחיל בעזרת האל ובסיעתא דשמייא הלכות חנוכה ופורים ופסח בעזרת האל ובישועתו ע"י אני הצעיר ע"ה שלום ן'(?) אברהם אבי טבול(?) תמך .

With marginal notes.

Deleted marginal note (ownership inscription?) on f. 1r.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 16, 35), unidentified watermark (ff. 47, 49).
Extent: 53 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

F. 53v is blank.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage, worm damage, some loss of texts.

Fragile leaves, collation is falling apart.

Lower half of f. 53 is torn off.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Ruling is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

Ownership inscription with calligraphy signature by Mordekhai ibn Ḳiḳi Avirgail on f. 23v: לעולם יחתום אדם שמו בספרו שמא יבוא אדם אחד מן השוק ויאמר שלי הוא... אני מרדכי ן' קיקי אבירגיל חתמתי בו שמי בספר האל יזכיני לקרות בהם אני וזרעי וזרע זרעי לקיים מה שנאמר לא ימושו מפיך ומפי זרעך אמר ה' מעתה ועד עליונה ויזכיני האל לכתוב ספרים אחרים ... וישיני האל למעלה ... שהו פרדס

II

Contents

A collection of various texts from different manuscripts and loose leaves.

ff. 54r-55v
Title: תקונים וחדושים
Title: Tiḳunim ṿe-ḥidushim

Colophon:
ff. 56r-57v
Author: פינטו, אברהם Pinṭo, Avraham
Title: פרושים וקושיות על הרא"ם
Title: Perushim ṿe-ḳushiyot ʿal ha-Reʾem

Colophon:
ff. 58r-67v
Title: דרשות
Title: Derashot

Ff. 59 and 61 are by later hand complementing the text.

Colophon:
ff. 68r-70v
Title: ספר רפואות (קטע)
Title: Sefer refuʾot (ḳeṭaʿ)

Diagrams on ff. 68v, 70r.

Colophon:
ff. 71r-76v
Title: סגלות
Title: Segulot

Colophon:
ff. 77r-82v
Title: דרשות
Title: Derashot

Colophon:
ff. 83r-87v
Title: נוסח כתונה, גטין ושטרות
Title: Nusaḥ ketubah, giṭin ṿe-shṭarot

Colophon:
ff. 90r-91v
Title: דרשות לשבת הגדול
Title: Derashot le-Shabat ha-Gadol

Colophon:
ff. 92r-92v
Title: זהר (תקונים, קטעים)
Title: Zohar (tiḳunim, ḳeṭaʿim)

Colophon:
ff. 93r-94r
Title: חדושים על שלחן ערוך (יורה דעה הלכות בדיקת הריאה והלכות טרפה)
Title: Ḥidushim ʿal Shulḥan 'arukh (Yoreh deʿah Hilkhot Bediḳot ha-reʾah ṿe-Hilkhot ṭerefah)

Colophon:
ff. 95r-95v
Title: זהר (תקונים, קטעים)
Title: Zohar (tiḳunim, ḳeṭaʿim)

Colophon:
ff. 96r-99v
Title: חדושים על שלחן ערוך (יורה דעה הלכות בדיקת הריאה והלכות טרפה)
Title: Ḥidushim ʿal Shulḥan 'arukh (Yoreh deʿah Hilkhot Bediḳot ha-reʾah ṿe-Hilkhot ṭerefah)

Colophon:
ff. 100r-102v
Title: דרשות לשבת הגדול
Title: Derashot le-Shabat ha-Gadol

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios (ff. 54-103)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Some blank pages.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Very fragile, brittle, torn leaves; some old repairs.

Usage stains, water damage, rodent damage, loss of text.

Ff. 55, 59, 88, 89, 91 are fragmentary.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Layout is not uniform.

Given dimensions are those of the largest leaves.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the 18th-19th century; by various hands.

Decoration

F. 89v: ink drawings.

Additions:

Part of Psalms 45:2 scribbled several times; calligraphy signatures.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

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

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