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Or 12320

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Or 12320
Title:
Three commentaries by Ephraim Heḳsher
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
180 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Heksher, Efrayim ben Shemu'el Zanvil, d 1759
Heksher, Efrayim ben Shemu'el Zanvil, d 1759
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Or 12320

Three commentaries by Ephraim Heḳsher

Contents

Novellae on various tractates of the Babylonian Talmud and a biblical commentary by Efrayim Heḳsher.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-104v
Author: הקשיר, אפרים בן שמואל זנויל Heḳsher, Efrayim ben Shemuʾel Zanṿil, -1759
Title: לוית חן
Title: Liṿyat ḥen

Novellae on various tractates of the Babylonian Talmud.

ff. 105r-156v
Author: הקשיר, אפרים בן שמואל זנויל Heḳsher, Efrayim ben Shemuʼel Zanṿil, -1759
Title: ענקים לגרגרת
Title: ʿAnaḳim la-gargeret

A commentary on the Pentateuch.

ff. 157r-177v
Author: הקשיר, אפרים בן שמואל זנויל Heḳsher, Efrayim ben Shemuʼel Zanṿil, -1759
Title: יומא טבא לרבנן
Title: Yoma ṭava le-Rabanan

Novellae on the Babylonian Talmud.

ff. 178r-180v
Title: Index

Incomplete at the beginning and perhaps also at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines,; watermark: posthorn (e.g. ff. 6, 116), countermark: 'G A' (ff. 104, 145).
Extent: 180 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140/285 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink on ff. 2-104, and restarting ff. 106-128.

Collation

Indeterminable due to the fragile state of the volume.

No catchwords.

Condition

Very fragile collation, some folios are loose.

Edges of leaves are brittle.

Foxing.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of written lines per page varies greatly.

Ff. 103 and 104 are much smaller, loose leaves. Text on f. 104v is upside down.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Parchment binding, with remains of a pair of straps. In phase box.

Scribbles in Italian and Hebrew on the front and back covers (perhaps recycled parchment?).

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1011; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 29 September 1929.

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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