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Or 12351
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- Or 12351
- Title:
- Bet ha-Leṿi by Solomon ben Isaac Levi
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 82 folios (i+82+ii)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Ladino
Portuguese - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1500-1599
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 12351
Bet ha-Leṿi by Solomon ben Isaac Levi
Contents
Treatise on the special status of the Levites.
Language(s): Hebrew, Ladino, Portuguese
ff. 2r-64vTitle: בית הלויTitle: Bet ha-LeṿiTreatise on the special status of the Levites and on the commandments they are obligated to observe, composed in 1552.
F. 1v by a different, Oriental cursive hand: אמר שלמה בן השוע ... בר יצחק לבית הלוי כאשר עלה ...
F. 2r added over the first line: שלמה בן האלוף ... הר' יצחק יצ"ו בן הרופא המומחה ... שלמה לבית הלוי זלה"ה
Corrections and marginal notes, especially on ff. 2-5, 25, 27.
References
Hacker, Joseph, 'Continuity or Change: The Case of Two Prominent Jewish Portuguese Clans in the Ottoman Empire'. In: Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essay in Honour of David B. Ruderman, ed. Richard I. Cohen et al. (Cincinatti, OH : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014), p. 16 n19.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: two arrows (e.g. ff. 4-5).Extent: 82 folios (i+82+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 150 × 110 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
F. 48v is blank.
Collation
7 quires: i8-1 (ff. 2-8), ii-vi8 (ff. 9-16, 17-24, 25-32, 33-40, 41-48), vii6 (ff. 49-54), viii10 (ff. 55-64)
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Water damage, usage stains, foxing, dirt, worm damage.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 30
Written lines: 30
Uniform layout.
Section headings in larger characters.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 16th century.
Additions:F. 65 (first half of a bifolio, the second half is blank and unfoliated) is a fragment of a responsa inserted later into the collation beginning שיעור כתובתה אם יכולים היורשים לומ' ישומו ויביחו ואנחנו כתובים לך .
Ff. 70-82: fragments appended to the codex; from the old binding of the manuscript (these leaves used to constitute the pasteboard). F. 82v is a remnant of an old leather binding with tooled motifs. Ff. 66-69: Compilations among which are quotes from Isaac Abravanel's book Maʿayane ha-Yeshuʿa; ff. 70-82: Business letters in Ladino and Portuguese (in Latin script), Including correspondence of Judah Cataribas (יהודה קאטאריבאש) and Joseph Lindo. (Fragments of the correspondence also in London BL Or 10852.) Letter on f. 77r is dated to 5323 (1562/3).
Binding
Post-1600, blue cloth binding. In phase box.
M. Gaster's label on spine: 'בית הלוי וכ' 36'.
History
Origin: 1500-1599 16th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 36; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 July 1927.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12351 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 43, no. 2 (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. pp. 150-151.Funding of Cataloguing
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