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Or 10387

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Or 10387
Title:
Sefer divre ha-yamim le-malkhe Tsarfat u-malkhe Bet ʿOṭoman ha-Tugar
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
483 folios (i+483+xxxi)
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Start Date:
1554
End Date:
1578
Date Range:
1554-1578
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120295502,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82204047
Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120295502,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82204047
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Or 10387

Sefer divre ha-yamim le-malkhe Tsarfat u-malkhe Bet ʿOṭoman ha-Tugar

Contents

A history of the kings of France and Turkey (Parts I-II).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-483r
Author: יוסף בן יהושע הכהן Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578
Title: הספר דברי הימים למלכי צרפת ומלכי בית עוטמאן התוגר
Title: Divre ha-Yamim le-malkhe Tsarfat u-malkhe bet ʿOṭoman ha-Tugar

The printed edition of 1554 Venice supplemented with the author's marginal notes and additions.

Part I deals with the period from the end of the Roman Empire until 1520, the second part covers the period 1520-1553.

This printed copy contains the handwritten notes, corrections and additions of the author. The handwritten addition f. 334 onwards covers period up to 1573, that includes Part III. Autograph.

Additional notes: ff. 4, 105-106, 113-122, 280, 314-315. From ff. 334 onwards it is purely handwritten. 7 leaves are missing from the end of the printed copy (according to the foliation of the printed volume: ff. שכב-שכח, that is, the last 7 folios of quire 41).

Cf. London, BL Or 3656 and Add MS 27122.

Less than half of the third part was printed from MS London BL Or 3656, by Gross David in Chronicles of the Kings of France and Turkey, Mosad Bialik, Jerusalem, 1955.

Filiation:

BL Or 12348 is partially autograph.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-164v
Title: Part I
ff. 165r-394r
Title: Part II

Three leaves of the printed text have been removed, f. 165r has been cancelled.

ff. 394v-483r
Title: Part III

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tree cicles with a cross on their tops (e.g. ff. 343, 409, 417)
Extent: 483 folios (i+483+xxxi)
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires: i8+1 (ff. 1-9), ii-x8 (ff. 10-17, 18-25, 26-33, 34-41, 42-49, 50-57, 58-65, 66-73, 74-81), xinine (ff. 82-90), xii8-1 (ff. 91-97), xiiiten (ff. 98-107), xiv8-1 (ff. 108-114), xveight (ff. 115-122), xvten (ff. 123-132), xvi-xix8 (ff. 133-140, 141-148, 149-156, 157-164), xx8-3 (ff. 165-169), xxi-xxxiii8 (ff. 170-177, 178-185, 186-193, 194-201, 202-209, 210, 211-218, 219-225, 226-233, 234-241, 242-249, 250-257, 258-265, 266-273), xxxiv8+1 (ff. 274-282), xxxv-xxxvii8 (ff. 283-290, 219-298, 299-306), xxxviiiten (ff. 307-316), xxxix-xl8 (317-324, 325-332), xli10-1 (ff. 333-341), xlii-li8 (ff. 342-349, 350-357, 358-365, 366-373, 374-381, 382-389, 390-397, 398-405, 406-413, 414-421), lii14 (ff. 422-435), liiieight (ff. 436-443), the rest is collation is indeterminable due to the fragile state of the manuscript.

Signatures in the printed volume: in Arabic/Roman and Hebrew characters (ii i א ב). The system continues in the handwritten parts but only using the Arabic/Roman signatures up to f. 447 (4 54).

Condition

Water damage, worm damage, mould, usage stains, foxing.

Layout

Columns:1

Fingerprint on f. 33r.

Ff. 4 and 280 are smaller paper slips inserted into the collation.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1071 דברי הימים למלכי צרפת וכ' יוסף הכהן I-III Autograph.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: Printed book: Venice; supplied marginal notes: Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note mentioning Avraham Verona on f. 1r with the upper part hardly legible: קנין כספי ... אברהם וירונה יצ"ו ...; ownership inscription on f. 1r: ... הספר דברי הימים שלי אני הושע מנחם וירונה יצ"ו שנתן לי ... קנין א"א במ' שלומה אברהם וירונה יצ"ו. Ownership inscription? on f. 1v.

Previously housed at the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1071; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 October 1931.

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

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Bibliography

    The Chronicles of Rabbi Joseph ben Joshua ben Meir, the Sephardi. Translated from the Hebrew by Bialloblotzky, C.H.F. (London, 1835), vol. 1, p. viii.
    Loeb, I. 'Additions au Dibré hayyamim de Josef Haccohen', Revue des études juives 10 (1885), pp. 248-250.
    David, Abraham, 'The Lutheran Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Historiography', Jewish Studies Quarterly 10, no. 2 (2003), pp. 124-139, esp. pp. 130-132.
    Jacobs, Martin, 'Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio, and Sixteenth-Century Historiography', in Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy, eds. David B. Ruderman and Giuseppe Veltri (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), pp. 67-85, esp. p. 81 n26.
    Jacobs, Martin, 'Sephardic Migration and Cultural Transfer: The Ottoman and Spanish Expansion through a Cinquecento Jewish Lens', Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2017), pp. 516-42, esp. p. 523.

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