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Or 10386

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032-003451970
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Or 10386
Title:
Jewish liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
163 folios (163+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10386 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10386

Jewish liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of liturgical pieces for Sabbath and weekdays.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-163v
Title: בקשות של שבת וחול ופיוטים
Title: Baḳashot shel Shabat ṿe-ḥol u-fiyuṭim

Includes among others compositions by Moses ben Jacob (e.g. f. 21r), Jacob ben Joseph (e.g. f. 125r), Samuel ben Hayyim (e.g. f. 59r), Samuel Aroliyo (שמואל ארוליו) (e.g. ff. 32r, 53v, 55r), Isaac Luria (e.g. f. 44v), etc.

Date mentioned 593 (1832/3) on f. 57v: שלי אני הצעיר שבציעני ... בשנת תקצ"א ואני בן.

Leaves from printed versions of piyutim and bakashot are bound in several places throughout the manuscript: ff. 8-10, 44-45, three unfoliated leaves after f. 162.

With additional texts by other hands at the beginning and end.

Ff. 1r-4r: indices.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types of paper.
Extent: 163 folios (163+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 13-150: parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves.

F. 160 is a much larger leaf inserted into the collation with the text running parallel to the spine (in the digital surrogate, this leaf has been rotated for readability).

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage, ink stains.

F. 28 is torn, only a stub has remained.

Collation is falling apart, f. 82 has come loose.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout not uniform.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North-African) Hebrew semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the 19th century.

Decoration

Panel with simple geometrical decoration, in ink (f. 96r).

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'פיוטים ופזמונים 291'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Label with old catalogue number on front cover: 'No. 28'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 291; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 March 1928.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10386 (digital images currently unavailable)

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