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Or 9794

Record Id:
032-003443028
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TEI
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Or 9794
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of Jewish documents from Italy
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
54 folios (ii+54+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9794 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1557
End Date:
1732
Date Range:
1557-1732
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Briel, Judah ben Eliezer, 1643-1722
Briel, Judah ben Eliezer, 1643-1722
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9794

Miscellaneous collection of Jewish documents from Italy

Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of 42 documents, in manuscript and printed, relating to the Jewish communities of Italy, from the 16th-18th century; comprising wills, sumptuary ordinances, proclamations for the maintenance of order, deeds of gift, private and commercial letters, communal edicts, contracts, responsa, etc.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-54v
Author:
Title: קבץ שטרות, מעשי בית דין ואגרות מקהלות שונות באיטליה במאות הט"ז-י"ח
Title: Ḳovets sheṭarot, maʻaśe bet din ṿe-igrot mi-ḳehilot shonot be-Iṭalyah ba-meʼot ha-16-18

Ff. 1r-23v, 33r-34r: documents issued in Mantua.

Ff. 24r, 25r: document issued in Ferrara.

Ff. 26r, 27r, 28r-29v, 34v, 41r: documents issued in Modena.

Ff. 33r-34r: pamphlet on Hilkhot sheḥiṭah, referring to Judah Briʾel (1643-1722) as deceased, beginning: קונטריס זה העתקתי ממה שנמצא כתוב בדף ראשון מספר פרי חדש מידי גלילי זהב של הרב כמה"ר יהודה בריאל זצוק"ל.

Ff. 35r-40r: 'din ṿe-ḥeshbon' issued by the Bet Din in Vercelli in Adar II 5377 (1617).

F. 41r: letter written by אהבה כהן מנסקריו.

F. 43r: court ruling dated Castel 25 Shevaṭ 5391 (January 1631).

F. 44r: letter by R. Joseph ben Michael Ravenna of Alessandria to someone in Monferrat; dated 5396 (1635/6).

F. 45r: court ruling dated 5398 (1637/8).

F. 46r: court ruling issued in Asti on 26 December 5402 (1641)

Ff. 48r-48v: sheṭar issued in Venice on 27 Ṭevet 5492 (1732).

Ff. 49r-53v: correspondence by יצחק בכמ’ אברהם גירון יצ"ו" ששיגר מ"ריגייו, dated 5452 (1692).

Ff. 54r-54v: fragment of the correspondence of Yishmael Riati's family containing letters of by his son Samuel , dated 5452 (1692).

Ff. 13v, 18r, 30r-32r in Italian in Latin script; comment in Italian in the lower margin of f. 17v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 54 folios (ii+54+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 384 × 287 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves/bifolios on guards.

Condition

Usage stains, folding lines, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1

Size of the leaves varies; given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.

F. 1 is much larger (80cm x 54cm) than the volume and folded.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and semi-cursive scripts of the 16th-18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Miscellaneous Documents. Hebrew & Italian. Brit. Mus. OR. 9794.'

History

Origin: 1557-1732 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Dr. I. Sonne. 14 May, 1927.'. I. Sonne is probably identical with Isaiah Sonne (1877-1960). Accession date 20 May 1927.

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_9794 (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. 160.

Funding of Cataloguing

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