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Or 9915

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032-003452153
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Or 9915
Title:
Biblical readings for Passover
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
122 folios (i+122+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9915 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
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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Or 9915

Biblical readings for Passover

Contents

Readings for Passover from the Pentateuch and the Prophets

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-100v
Title: Readings for Passover
Title:

ff. 1r-11r
Title: Judeo-Arabic work
Incipit: אסמא אראבעא
Explicit: תם ונשלם שבח לאל בורא עולם

In Judeo-Arabic.

Colophon: אני הכותב ע"ה אליהו ן' סעדון ס"ט f. 11r
ff. 19r-58r
Title: צהיר של פסח
Title: Tsahir shel Pesaḥ
Incipit: אתחיל לכתוב צהיר של פסח

In Aramaic (Targum) accompanied by a version in Judeo-Arabic.

ff. 58v-100v
Title: הפטרות של פסח
Title: Hafṭarot shel Pesaḥ
Incipit: אתחיל לכתוב צהיר של פסח

In Aramaic (Targum) accompanied by a version in Judeo-Arabic.

Colophon: אני הכותב ע"ה אליהו ן' סעדון ס"ט f. 100r
ff. 101r-102r
Title: Kabbalistic work

Begins: מאמר הובא בזוהר הקדוש וז"ל זהב זה ראש השנה וכסף זה יוה"ך ונחשת זה חג הסוכות ותכלת זה חג הפסח...; possibly a paraphrase of Zohar II, 135a.

Colophon:
ff. 103r-104r
Title: פיוטים
Title: Piyuṭim

Colophon:
ff. 105r-122v
Title: בקשות
Title: Baḳashot
Incipit: אתחיל לכתוב בקשות של חול ושל שבת

Incomplete.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 122 folios (i+122+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 149 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 11v is blank.

Collation

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, loss of text.

Certain leaves have been repaired with silk gauze.

F. 122 is damaged, its upper part is missing. Probably from a different manuscript originally: a different kind of paper, and the handwriting is different as well.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 18

Layout is not uniform.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century. Scribe's calligraphy signature on ff. 11r, 100r: Eliyahu ibn Saʿadun.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 16v, 102v: calculations.

F. 104v: goralot?

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Parashiyyoth, Haphṭaroth, etc. Hebr.-Aram. & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9915.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription by Eliyahu Saʿadun on f. 12r: אמרו חזל לעולם יתחום אדם שמו בספרו עבד השם ברוך הוא זעיהו דמן חברייא של תלמיד חכמים איש שהכל בו צנצנת המן נטע נעמן אליהו בן סעדון ס"ט; calligraphy signature of Isaac עבו several times: הצעיר יצחק עבו

Ownership inscription by Isaac עבו on ff. 100v, 103r, 105v: הצעיר יצחק עבו

Ownership inscription by Yosef Tseva(?) on f. 100v: אמר חזל לעולם יתחום אדם שמו בספרו שמי אבו אחד מן ויאמר של הוא על כן חתמתי שמי בספרי שלי אני הצעיר ע"ה... יוספ צבע.>

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 287; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 February 1928.

Record Sources

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

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