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Or 9788

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Or 9788
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
155 folios (ii+155+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1750
Date Range:
1700-1750
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Aron d'Italia
Briel, Judah ben Eliezer, 1643-1722
Briel, Judah ben Eliezer, 1643-1722
Caliman d'Italia
Immanuel ben Solomon, 1265-1330
Immanuel ben Solomon, 1265-1330
Immanuʾel Frances
Lazzaro d'Italia
Shimshon Kohen Modon
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9788

Miscellany

Contents

A collection of poetical works, a digest of grammar and remedies.

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin, Italian

ff. 2r-155v
Title: לקט שירים וספרות
Title: Leḳeṭ shirim ṿe-sifrut
Incipit: שכל מצייר יום אשר ציירתי f. 2r

Poetical works by Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome, Judah ha-Levi, Zerahiah ha-Levi, Jediah ben Abraham Penini, Jacob Frances, and Samson Kohen Modon.

Ff. 42r-45v: Baḳashat ha-Memim by Yeda'yah ha-Penini beginning: בקשה שחבר החכם ... ר' ידעיה הפניני בר אברהם זלה"ה .

Ff. 48v-59v: a digest of grammar by Judah Briʾel entitled כללי הדקדוק.

F. 61 and onwards: poems by Yaʿaḳov and Immanuʾel Frances and by Shimshon Kohen Modon (שכ"ם). Date at the bottom of f. 61v: התפ"ד, that is, 1723/4. F 64v: כה ידבר יהודה בריאל בעדו ובעד קהל ישראל . With numerous correstions.

Ff. 71r-71v: remedies.

Ff. 73v-155v: remedies in Italian (Latin characters) ; ff. 154-151r: index (from left to right!).

F. 145r: a poem by Shimshon Kohen Modon from the year תפ"ד (in 1723/4).

Also includes: excerpts from the notebooks of Immanuel of Rome, poems for weddings among which a poem in Hebrew and Italian (f. 34v) and a "wedding poem" from the year ע’ת (in 1709/10) (f. 46v), and a disputation between the reason and the will, begins with: איש היה בארץ עוץ ושמו דן (ff. 21v-29v), at its end י"ב (Judah Briʾel?).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: three circles with a cross on top (e.g. ff. 3, 4, 67, 68).
Extent: 155 folios (ii+155+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 113 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 2-34: parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe. Pagination in ink FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: ff. 154-151 (index) and ff. 149r-73v.

Ff. 47v, 60v, 131v, 132r,133r, 135v, 139r, 141r, 146r are blank.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

F. 62r and 62v: Latin text upside down: 'Hermetis Trismegisti Tabula Smaragdina'.

Ff. 65v-66r: crossed out.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script and Latin cursive script of the 18th century; Hebrew is partially vocalised.

Ff. 2r-73r: Italian Hebrew cursive script.

Ff. 73v-155r: Latin cursive script.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1r-1v and 155v: scribbles in Hebrew and Italian, doodles, calculations.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Poems, Grammar, & Prescriptions. Hebrew & Latin. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9788.'

History

Origin: 1700-1750 First half of the 18th century (probably around 1724) Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions(?) on f. 155v: 'Lazzaro d'Italia', 'Aron d'Italia', '... Isachi' (f. 155v); 'Caliman d'Italia' (front flyleaf (ii)v). The name 'Caliman d'Italia' appears in some documents in the Archive of the Mantua Jewish Community (http://digiebraico.bibliotecateresiana.it/index_filze.php)

Inscription in Italian on front flyleaf (ii)r and back flyleaf (i)r by the same hand, hardly legible.

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Luzac & Co. 9. Apr. 1927.'; date of accession 27 April 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_9788 (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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